On Oct 31, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Ng, Kenneth (US) wrote:

> Hello, I see that Nessus has the ability to query various Windows
> functions if it is provided authentication information.  I don't  
> want to
> use the domain administrator account for obvious security reasons.

which ones ??

you can add another account to the administrator group too.

> If I
> set up a dedicated domain account, what are the bare minimum  
> permissions
> I would need to give it to be able to use Nessus to gather things like
> patch information?

Administrator account allows you to do file version check, wmi test,  
and other LSA restricted tests.

> Given such permissions, what harm could still be
> done if the id were compromised?

Same than with any other account ...



Nicolas
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