On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Jared Breland wrote:

> Yes, Nikto is in my path.  As the same user that's running the Nessus scans,
> I can run the following command:
> nikto.pl -host xxxxx
>
> and it works perfectly.  I've been trying to debug this for a while, but I
> haven't had any luck whatsoever.  My logs simply say that it ran, then
> exited successfully, but I never get any output.

It is not interresting wether nikto can be run by the user starting the
scan.

Can root run nikto? As nessusd will fire nikto and so nessusd is the
relevant reference point which is running as root and not as user johndoe.

Hugo.

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