On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:43:51AM -0700, Jay Jacobson wrote: > > Hi, I want to run the script under another account... What do i have to > > change to make it works? > > > > Chmod ??? /usr/local/sbin/nessus-update-plugins > > Chmod ??? /usr/local/etc/nessus/nessusd.conf > > Chmod ??? /usr/local/lib/nessus/plugins > > > > What more? > > > You could 'chown -r user /usr/local/lib/nessus/plugins', but that would > still not work because the script has to HUP the nessusd process which > runs as root. There are compile-time flags to install Nessus as a non-root > user, but I believe that is for development only and might break some > things in production.
And in addition to that the script themselves check that the user is indeed root.
