My bad, not enough information. I did run nessus-adduser to add "root"
in the user database. Your correct, I did mean "nessusd -L" and it
should list users existing in the user database. I wanted to delete
"root" as a user and recreate him to see I would be able to login
successfully. I'm working from a previous message in the list where
advice was received for a similar login problem. I'm running RH 8.0,
Nessus 1.2.7 with both client and server installed on the same box. When
I try to login as "root" I get "Login failed". When I try to list
existing users with "nessusd -L" I get "Bind () Failed : Address already
in use".

D. Sax


-----Original Message-----
From: George A. Theall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 08:27
To: Doug Sax
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Bind () Failed : Address already in use


On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 04:13:20PM -0500, Doug Sax wrote:

> When I try to login using the client on the same machine as the 
> server, I get "Login failed" and an error in the terminal
> "/usr/local/var/nessus/users/root/auth/password: no such file or 
> directory.".

You need to configure the user "root" to use nessus.  Did you run
nessus-adduser or otherwise add "root" to the nessus user database? See
nessusd(8) or nessus-adduser(8) for details. 

> When I try "nessus -L" I get the bind error. I'm running RH 8.0 and 
> Nessus 1.2.7.

You must have meant "nessusd -L" - the nessus client (ie, nessus) would
never try to bind to a port. 

But regardless, neither the client nor the server support that option,
as far as I can know.  What are you trying to do here?

George
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