So sprach Brian J. Murrell am Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 11:10:01AM -0700:
> Got the following when installing:
>
> # rpm -ivh /tmp/nessus-1.0.5-1mdk.i586.rpm
>/tmp/nessus-{plugins,client}-1.0.5-1mdk.i586.rpm
> nessus ##################################################
> Starting nessusd: Generating primes: ...................q..pg
> Couldn't open the directory called "/usr/lib/nessus/plugins"
> Check /etc//nessus/nessusd.conf
> [FAILED]
> nessus-plugins ##################################################
> nessus-client ##################################################
It means that you need to install nessus-plugins BEFORE nessus. Fixing this
right away, thanks for your report. to fix this now, a "/etc/init.d/nessusd
restart" should work.
> Then when I ran nessus it would not authenticate me:
>
> [Fri Oct 27 11:02:02 2000][1542] Client requested protocol version 101.
> [Fri Oct 27 11:02:02 2000][1542] Installing IO thread id tracker.
> [Fri Oct 27 11:02:03 2000][1542] bad login attempt from 127.0.0.1
>
> but I have never used nessus before and have not read any docs on it yet
> so it could very easily just be me being an idiot. :-)
Did you create a nessus user as root with nessus-adduser? nessus does not
use the linux user base, so that's your fault (no offense intended at all!)
Alexander Skwar
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