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Improved Find Command Support in AIX Change The Nessus...
Well this will not be good for us as we are not allowed to enable 'Perform through tests' on systems other than non-production, of which identifying those becomes almost everyone considers all of their stuff to be 'production' in this sense, because in the past doing so caused some of the other test to go too deep and caused impact. I get its a fine balance as to which feature triggers what in a plugin, but not running 'find' in any plugin for AIX without this setting? Before this, for any *nix, in '.audit' files where 'find' was used I'd just add in directories to exclude, via 'prune', rather than worry as much about 'max_depth' to reduce the impact described.
https://docs.tenable.com/nessus/Content/AssessmentSettings.htm
Perform thorough tests (may disrupt your network or impact scan speed): Causes various plugins to work harder. For example, when looking through SMB file shares, a plugin can analyze 3 directory levels deep instead of 1. This could cause much more network traffic and analysis in some cases. By being more thorough, the scan is more intrusive and is more likely to disrupt the network, while potentially providing better audit results.