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SARA, spawn of SATAN (Linux.com)

[Posted January 26, 2006 by cook]

Linux.com reviews SARA, a network auditing tool. "If you are an old school Linux or Unix user, you probably remember the System Administrator's Tool for Scanning Networks (SATAN). In 1995, SATAN brought browser-based network auditing to the world. Despite its initial splash, SATAN fell to the wayside due to lack of updates. Thanks to the kind folks at the Advanced Research Corp., SATAN is back, in the form of the Security Auditor's Research Assistant (SARA), a kinder, gentler, easier to use, and more updated auditing tool."
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SARA, spawn of SATAN (Linux.com)

Posted Jan 27, 2006 15:19 UTC (Fri) by rickmoen (subscriber, #6943) [Link]

The review fails to mention the underlying reason why SATAN languished for lack of updates:
Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema's proprietary (if fairly benign) licensing, which meant that
collaborative mindshare simply went elsewhere. This is relevant because SARA is under the same
licence.

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com


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