Problem with Nessus/Hydra SMB brute force?

Wed Sep 10 04:36:14 EDT 2003

Mark G. Spencer wrote:
> Nessus ran and gave me a variety of information about ports 139 and 445, but
> nowhere in the report do I see anything about brute force login, Hydra, or
> any information about whether the username and password files I pointed the
> Prefs. Tab at were actually used and successful or not.
> 
> Any ideas?  I'm running Red Hat 9 and Nessus 2.0.7.
> 

Would this be bug #470 [1] ? Hydra seems to work on/off in Nessus so it 
maybe because of a programming problem in the plugin.

Regards

Javi

[1] http://bugs.nessus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470