Fedora Security Tools spin

Adrian Pilchowiec adi1981.2k5 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 22:52:49 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 03 of September 2008 23:00:44 Luke Macken wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:54:37AM +0530, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote:
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> > Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > > Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote:
> > >> I just came across a knoppix security tool live CD and thought it
> > >> would be a good idea for a security tool fedora spin too.
> > >> The tools are freely available at:
> > >>
> > >> http://knoppix-std.org/index.html
> > >> and are all GPLed?
> > >>
> > >> Do you guys think this is a good idea, I am sure such a spin does
> > >> not exists in Fedora yet.
> > >
> > > Do you mean something like Luke Macken put together?
> > >
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LukeMacken/SecurityLiveCD
> >
> > Yeah but more tools and more bare bones,
> > Perhaps i can assist Luke in this?
>
> Absolutely!
>
> I'm in the process of rebasing the kickstart against the latest livecd
> base, and I will be pushing it through the New Spin Process soon.
>
> More tools?  Yes.  I want it to ship with every security tool in Fedora.
> If you know of any that are missing from the list, please let me know.
>

Maybe it would be good to add OpenVAS [1] (free fork of nessus) to the spin ? 

[1] http://www.openvas.org/




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