On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:31:00PM -0500, Pinsky, Daniel wrote: > If I enable the nmap –o (os fingerprint flag).
The only plugin I think that uses nmap's OS fingerprinting is find_ap.nasl, which tries to identify access points. > Even if I enable all nessus plugins for example will nessus only run the > pluggins based on what nmap returns as OS detection? To recap if I > enable nessus redhat and windows plugins. If you enable "Optimize the test" (or "optimize_test" in the client config), nessusd will skip execution of plugins like local security checks unless the KB for the target contains the appropriate key(s); eg, "Host/RedHat/rpm-list" in the case of Redhat local security checks. In the case of this key, it gets populated by ssh_get_info.nasl provided nessusd can ssh into a RedHat box and retrieve a list of installed packages. George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
