On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 07:24:15AM -0500, Scott Pate wrote: > I read the posts, but didn't see a solution. Is there a workaround for > editing the nessusrc file by hand?
Since you're connecting to a nessusd daemon running on the localhost, you could switch to using nessus rather than NessusClient. The former is intended for commandline usage. > what would you > recommend is the correct way to run nessus in batch mode so I can edit > the config file and have my changes persist across scans? People generally use one of the third-party update-nessusrc scripts to control from a commandline which plugins are enabled: http://www.tifaware.com/perl/update-nessusrc/ http://edgeos.com/downloads/update-nessusrc.tar.gz The first is something I wrote in Perl; the second is a Python-based script from Edgeos. You need something like this since Nessus will automatically enable any non-dangerous plugins (or any plugins if safe checks are disabled) that are not explicitly disabled in a client configuration, which means becomes an issue as you update plugins over time. George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
