[Openvas-discuss] Ideas and wishes for future improvements of OpenVAS

oday@fas.harvard.edu oday at fas.harvard.edu
Wed May 23 22:10:06 CEST 2007


Quoting Lmwangi <labeneator at gmail.com>:

> Hi All,
> I would love to replace the authentication front end.  Personally, I feel
> like its a mess.... In my opinion, we should replace it with something
> similar to courier's Authdaemond. (We don't have to create a separate
> authentication daemon, Maybe a plugin architecture....?) Courier is
> abstracted from the password storage backends (SQL,LDAP,PAM). This ranks
> high up there for me..

Personally the entire nessus gui has always been a little too messy for me. 
Their recent Mac OS version is a little better however we could use a good
usability expert to come in and redesign things.  Particularly the way scanning
options are arranged.

Oliver



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