The "SATAN" UNIX Application

[Sirin]

I found this (http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/7972/satansysadmintan3vt.png) while searching the net for securing Linux to an even further point. I wonder what happens when you install and run it. :p[

[mstlyevil]

I found this (http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/7972/satansysadmintan3vt.png) while searching the net for securing Linux to an even further point. I wonder what happens when you install and run it. :p

That is one hell of a application. (No pun intended.) ;)

[YourSurrogateGod]

Damn! Satan (a.k.a. Dan Farmer) has made some real programming progress lately... I need to catch up to him.

[blueturtl]

I gotta say I always thought one of the reasons for people looking a bit oddly at Linux was the amazingly powerfull yet short names for applications; for example sgllavjakfjak bklagajal or xmms ;)

I always thought making the names more obvious would help make the system more widely popular, but I'm not so sure this is the right trend. :D

[awakatanka]

I gotta say I always thought one of the reasons for people looking a bit oddly at Linux was the amazingly powerfull yet short names for applications; for example sgllavjakfjak bklagajal or xmms ;)

I always thought making the names more obvious would help make the system more widely popular, but I'm not so sure this is the right trend. :D
Linux is a game something like scrabble ;) :D

[h3xx3r]

Satan Meets Jack The Ripper , The only place this could happen is Linux :D:D

[KingBahamut]

SATAN, Jack the Ripper, chkrootkit, nessus, iptraf, tcpdump, tcpflow, arping, arpalert, cheops, ettercap, nmap, amap, darkstat, netsed, and driftnet for fun.

Thats my toolbox.

[haxer]

Whats the main goal with SATAN? Is there any good sites with all info i need to know about this tools of cource i used jack before and nmap but never SATAN :twisted: any good sites with all illeagel "not to do" things?:-k

[iPower]

maybe it says hell o everybody :)

[haxer]

Haha.. no but serious i need to find some facts about the mistory about "hacking" any ideas? :-k BTW that was funny :-D

[RAV TUX]

Haha.. no but serious i need to find some facts about the mistory about "hacking" any ideas? :-k BTW that was funny :-D
Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks

[RAV TUX]

Haha.. no but serious i need to find some facts about the mistory about "hacking" any ideas? :-k BTW that was funny :-D

SATAN (the Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks) is a testing and reporting toolbox that collects a variety of information about networked hosts and was considered one of the best when written. In fact, it was the first truly user-friendly network scanner. It features an HTML interface, complete with forms to enter targets, tables to display results and context-sensitive tutorials that appear when a hole has been found.
The tool was developed by Dan Farmer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Farmer) and Wietse Venema (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wietse_Venema).
SATAN was designed to help systems administrators automate the process of testing their systems for known vulnerabilities that can be exploited via the network. This is particularly useful for networked systems with multiple hosts. Like most security tools, it is useful for good or bad purposes - it is also useful to would-be intruders looking for systems with security holes.
SATAN is written mostly in Perl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl) and utilizes a web browser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser) such as Netscape, Mosaic or Lynx to provide the user interface. This easy to use interface drives the scanning process and presents the results in summary format. As well as reporting the presence of vulnerabilities, SATAN also gathers large amounts of general network information, such as which hosts are connected to subnets, what types of machines they are and which services they offer.
SATAN was developed in 1993 and is not being further developed. In 2006 SecTools.Org (http://sectools.org/) conducted a security popularity poll and developed a list of 100 network security analysis tools in order of popularity based on the responses of 3,243 people. Results suggest that SATAN has been replaced by Nessus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessus_%28software%29) and to a lesser degree SARA (http://www-arc.com/sara/) (Security Auditor's Research Assistant).
For those offended by the name, the package contains a program called repent, which changes everything named SATAN to SANTA. This was not sufficient, however, to keep the package from falling from popularity fairly rapidly after its meteoric rise in the 1990s.


Thus SANTA is SATAN!

[Frak]

Thus SANTA is SATAN!

Gives a new meaning to "Bad Santa";)

[RAV TUX]

Gives a new meaning to "Bad Santa";)

"SANTA is SATAN"

would make a good name for a rock band.;)

[gschoper]

SATAN, Jack the Ripper, chkrootkit, nessus, iptraf, tcpdump, tcpflow, arping, arpalert, cheops, ettercap, nmap, amap, darkstat, netsed, and driftnet for fun.

Thats my toolbox.

Don't forget courtney, cops, and crack :)

gschoper

[steven8]

Would it be downloading Satan, or uploading? Therein lies the question. . .

[steven8]

Thus SANTA is SATAN!

I never trusted that dude! He didn't know NO tunes!! :-)

[dbbolton]

i'm tempted

[steven8]

i'm tempted

That's how it starts. . .

[haxer]

Nee I think thers to much mistory .. you can do al the things you can do with nice gui in windows its just more "HaXy" to do it in linux :) ;)

[rlozano]

what a good name to start :D but the acronym makes sense...

[cmorgan47]

does anyone here actually remember this?
it was a pretty big deal at the time.

[bionnaki]

ubuntu christian version should include SATAN.

[haxer]

No Santa thats like cristian :)

[fakie_flip]

Where can I get the app, and how can it be installed? My guess is that it is only available for Ubuntu as source code and needs ./configure, make, sudo make install to install it.