On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 09:35:41PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I found out that my nessus wx windows GUI that points to
my linux installation 3.0.2 of nessus does not give me the option to
choose the "brute force" family.

That family only contains plugins that use Hydra; that you don't see it suggests there's a problem on the nessusd side loading those plugins.

> The hydra plugins are downloaded
into /opt/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins.  Therefore, I downloaded and
installed hydra 5.3.  However I still cannot get the plugins to
"load".  I found mention of a PATH in regards to nessusd
(http://mail.nessus.org/pipermail/nessus/2004-March/msg00154.html)
but i do not understand.

For the sake of discussion, suppose you installed Hydra under /usr/local/hydra. You need to ensure that appears in the PATH environment variable when nessusd is started. For example, if you start nessusd from the commandline, you could do:

  PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/hydra /opt/nessus/sbin/nessusd -D

assuming you use sh / ksh / bash as your shell.

If you start nessusd through a startup script, edit that and tweak the PATH variable as appropriate.

George
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