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authorfoxfair <foxfair@FreeBSD.org>1999-12-01 13:35:29 +0800
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Submitted by: Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no> NASL is a scripting language designed for the Nessus security scanner. Its aim is to allow anyone to write a test for a given security hole in a few minutes, to allow people to share their tests without having to worry about their operating system, and to garantee everyone that a NASL script can not do anything nasty except performing a given security test against a given target. NASL is not a powerful scripting language. Its purpose is to make scripts that are security tests. So, do not expect to write a third generation web server in this language, nor a file conversion utility. Use perl, python or whatever scripting language to do this. WWW: http://www.nessus.org/doc/nasl.html
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+NASL is a scripting language designed for the Nessus security scanner. Its
+aim is to allow anyone to write a test for a given security hole in a few
+minutes, to allow people to share their tests without having to worry
+about their operating system, and to garantee everyone that a NASL script
+can not do anything nasty except performing a given security test against
+a given target. Thus, NASL allows you to easily forge IP packets, or to
+send regular packets. It provides you some convenient functions that will
+make the test of web and ftp server more easy to write. NASL
+garantees you that a NASL script :
+
+ will not send any packet to a host other than the target host
+ will not execute any commands on your local system
+
+NASL is not a powerful scripting language. Its purpose is to make scripts
+that are security tests. So, do not expect to write a third generation web
+server in this language, nor a file conversion utility. Use perl, python
+or whatever scripting language to do this.
+
+WWW: http://www.nessus.org/doc/nasl.html