Jan: Thank you for your kind words of encouragement.
My current line of work is automating security scans for printers. I am familiar with NASL but was going to skip writing plugins in that if OVAL was the future. I am assuming this forum will announce when we are able to proceed with the prototype code. I am comfortable with SVN branch and trunk development so I will keep an eye out for it. I have a development background in C, C++, and Python. For me installing the development environment and stepping through the debug code is the best way to start understanding application behaviour. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, Tam ________________________________________ From: Jan-Oliver Wagner [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 2:11 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Pham, Tam T Subject: Re: [Openvas-discuss] next steps for development in OpenVAS Am Montag, 21. Juli 2014, 20:12:44 schrieb Pham, Tam T: > I have done some digging into Openvas including install from RPM in RHEL, > DEB install into Ubuntu, and source install into Ubuntu. I have previous > exposure to NASL from working on Nessus when it was still open source. > > I am instrumenting Openvas to do automated scans in my production > environment and am also interested in contributing to the development > effort. Any contribution is welcome! > At this point I would like some suggestions on how to get more deeply > involved in two areas of interest: 1) Developing plugins in OVAL to extend > the tool set. Running OVAL definitions files is something currently being worked on as part of the OSP integration, prototyping with ovaldi. If your are not afraid of SVN trunk, you can soon try it out... > 2) Contributing to the development of Openvas security scanner. I am > interested in just digging in now and getting general understanding of the > data flow. Also getting a handle on the development and debugging > environment. Building from trunk is a good start. Fixing bugs, trying to trace them is something training a lot about the internals ;-) -- Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner | ++49-541-335084-0 | http://www.greenbone.net/ Greenbone Networks GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, HR B 202460 Geschäftsführer: Lukas Grunwald, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
