[Openvas-discuss] Summary of ideas for future OpenVAS functionalities

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Thursday 24 May 2007 15:48, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 11:51:01AM +0200, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> > - Direct support of Database:
> >   OpenVAS Server should optionally write results into a database.
> >   It is to be discussed whether this is done additional to sending
> >   the results via Nessus Protocol. Also the question is open whether
> >   the server manages access to the database directly or whether users
> >   submit DB connection and authorization details so that the
> >   data are written there.
>
> Just for the record: database support was introduced in CVS (see
> NESSUS_SQL) with multiple database backends and a database schema which was
> discussed in the Nessus mailing list. It was introduced in 2003, and was
> more or less maintained for the 2.0 release. It might need some tinkering
> to get it to work with newer releases, though.
>
> Unfortunately it was never merged it with the trunk (despite the promises)
> and I lost interest in it. Nobody picked it up afterwards AFAIK, but the
> work (and code) done at that time could still be useful to OpenVAS.

So my memory was correct :-)

However, I don't have any CVS access to nessus-core anymore. Anonymous
access has been already switched off some time before that.
So, I am afraid there it is not really easy to simply retrieve the code.
The tar-ball releases of Nessus-2 are only snapshots of HEAD.
Also the OpenVAS modules did take a snapshot of HEAD and not of
any branches.

Perhaps the authors of this branch have still access to CVS?
If not, maybe Tenable is willing to provide a current snapshot
of this branch.

Best

	Jan
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