This is an updated version of the SATAN public documentation release of March 15, 1995. It has educational value because of the large number of problems in its example data base. --------------------- This is the SATAN public documentation release. We're releasing it so that you can get some idea of what the final product will be like. The first official release will be on April 5 at 16:00 MET, on host ftp.win.tue.nl as /pub/security/satan.tar.Z. Announcements will be posted to comp.security.misc and comp.unix.admin. The SATAN public documentation release is a complete SATAN kit with the data acquisition tools stripped off, and with sample data taken one year ago, when only half the tools were in place (and half of them were still broken). Additional software that you need: PERl 5, and a WWW browser (netscape or mosaic preferred, but Lynx should be possible, too). When you want to view the sample data, you will need a moderately fast workstation (sparc5, indy) with 32 MBytes of memory, and 64 MBytes of swap space or more. It looks better when you have a color display. In order get things up and running, - Run the `reconfig' script. It will patch some scripts with the pathnames of your PERL 5 executable, and your Web browser. - Run the `make' command. It will build a small md5 executable that is needed for authentication between SATAN and the Web browser. - Run the `satan' script. When run without arguments, it will start up a Web browser. - Choose the `data management' link, and load the `foo.org' data base. It may take several tens of seconds to read all data from file. Enjoy the reports and the documentation. Wietse Venema / Dan Farmer (satan@fish.com)