All, I'm running into some trouble running nessus.. Well, a variety of troubles. Maybe someone can help me.
I'm trying to run nessus on a "machine" running a carrier grade linux at kernel 2.6.10. Intel based. Basically the trouble I'm running into is that I need to have the following settings for my scans All ports scanned 1-65535 Safe_checks no (so that the following warning will be no more "The plugins that have the ability to crash remote services or hosts have been disabled. You should activate them if you want your security audit to be complete") And to have my plugins updated to the latest versions Problem is, the machine I want to run it against, does not have an external ethernet connection to the outside world (i.e. internet). It is a blade in a chassis that only talks over the chassis' internal backplane. I want to run a command line scan with the above parameters from another blade. None of which do GUI. I'm in a rut trying to configure the server and client to do all ports, safe_checks no, and cant seem to get my plugins to update. I've tried downloading the all-2.0.tar.gz file from nessus.org and unpacking it in the nessus/lib/nessus/plugins directory, but I'm not sure that works. I've also tried the plugin uploading option in both the client config file /root/.nessusrc and the server config file nessus/etc/nessus/nessusd.conf I'm at a loss and out of ideas. I've seen countless threads on how to turn safe checks off, none of which have worked, and have seen the update_nessusrc script which I cant run because my system doesn't have the perl modules installed. HELP, I'm swamped. _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
