Hi all, 1. I use OpenVAS on my debian laptops to identify any potential unpatched programs. I find it especially useful because it warns about potential security holes in Firefox and thunderbird. Sometimes, I also use it to scan the machines of my friends.
2. The OpenVAS client written in C is great, but I would love to have scriptable client(preferably a library in a scripting language) :-p 3. Hence, I trying to write a OpenVAS client in ruby. My immediate goal is to be able to ask the server to launch attacks from a ruby script and receive the results from the server. 4. To implement this I choose ruby (becuase that's the language I've been working on nowadays). I am refering to the compendium and the code in openvas-client-2.0.1/nessus/*.c. For example to understand how to tell the server to start and attack I referred to attack_host() in attack.c 5. I just wanted to ask if there is anything else that I might want to refer to. 6. I am hosting the code on github : http://github.com/gautamc/ovasotp-ruby/tree/master (its pretty dumb right now, but I will be improving on it .. :) ) Thanks, Gautam Chekuri Programmer - Azri Solutions Pvt Ltd. "May the source be with GNU" _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
