On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:20:20PM -0500, Bishop, Dean wrote:

>   i am trying to put together a very simple web front end to initiate preset
> scans.  i have it working on a Redhat 7.3 box and am trying to get it going
> on a Redhat 8.0 box but keep getting this error in /var/log/hppd/error_log
> 
> nessus : Invalid server certificate
> 
>   It is clear that this is a permissions problem (the scan works fine from
> the command line as root) but i just cannot figure out what permission is
> missing.
...
> what does this error indicate?

It indicates that the server's certificate is either unknown or changed
compared to your list of stored certificates (~/.nessusrc.cert) or that
OpenSSL failed to validate it.  [This behaviour is controlled by the
setting paranoia_level in your nessusrc; see nessus-core/README_SSL for
details.]

To avoid this problem, either set paranoia_level to 2 or ensure your web
server (or whatever id the CGI scripts run as) access to a file called
.nessusrc.cert in its home directory with the server's hashed cert. 

George
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