yes, families, not categories.
> I don't think that have kazillons of families should be a problem,
as
> long as we have more than one plugin in each!
I disagree. I think there should be only as many as necessary,
without being *too* general--but I don't want 100 families either!
We will always be able to argue about where a plugin should go
(Win/Web/File Access/etc), but that is okay.
I put some ideas below. I have what *I* would consider a good
reason for making the changes I propose, but folks may disagree,
and I may need to explain what I was thinking (trying to be brief).
- (Start of a) change proposal -
*Leave As-Is:
Denial of Service
FTP
General
Port scanners
RPC
Settings
SMTP (drop "problems" from name)
SNMP
Untested
Windows
Windows : User management
Firewalls
*Create:
Remote Shell
Routers
Service Info
Web
*Remove:
Backdoors (move to Service Info or Remote Shell)
CGI abuses (move to Web)
CISCO (move to Routers)
Finger abuses (move to Service Info, Remote Shell or appropriate)
Gain a shell remotely (move to Remote Shell)
Gain root remotely (move to Remote Shell)
Misc. (move to General or elsewhere)
NIS (move bootparamd.nasl to RPC, nis_server.nasl to General)
Useless service (move most to Service Info)
*Note sure:
Remote file access -- a *lot* of these could go to Web
Along with picking through the Misc/General to make sure things
are in the right place.
-Sullo
> I don't think that have kazillons of families should be a problem,
as
> long as we have more than one plugin in each!
I disagree. I think there should be only as many as necessary,
without being *too* general--but I don't want 100 families either!
We will always be able to argue about where a plugin should go
(Win/Web/File Access/etc), but that is okay.
I put some ideas below. I have what *I* would consider a good
reason for making the changes I propose, but folks may disagree,
and I may need to explain what I was thinking (trying to be brief).
- (Start of a) change proposal -
*Leave As-Is:
Denial of Service
FTP
General
Port scanners
RPC
Settings
SMTP (drop "problems" from name)
SNMP
Untested
Windows
Windows : User management
Firewalls
*Create:
Remote Shell
Routers
Service Info
Web
*Remove:
Backdoors (move to Service Info or Remote Shell)
CGI abuses (move to Web)
CISCO (move to Routers)
Finger abuses (move to Service Info, Remote Shell or appropriate)
Gain a shell remotely (move to Remote Shell)
Gain root remotely (move to Remote Shell)
Misc. (move to General or elsewhere)
NIS (move bootparamd.nasl to RPC, nis_server.nasl to General)
Useless service (move most to Service Info)
*Note sure:
Remote file access -- a *lot* of these could go to Web
Along with picking through the Misc/General to make sure things
are in the right place.
-Sullo