Are you asking how to view the scan in stdout? I'm not sure about that, but you could increase verbosity of your logging and reporting.
Also, view the NASL for the plugins if you want to know what is happening in the background. On 2/27/08, Shuang Zheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way from the command line to turn on the "plug-in" parameter in > order to let the scan report display the attacks (what types of plug-in) > were used in the > port scan? > > Thanks again. > > > Mikhail Utin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PenTesting is usually means you are going to use real exploits. While > "safe_check" = no is basically correct, not all plugins will be exploits. > You can do "fuzzy" scanning as well. It means you identify opened ports > first (or have all 64K ports), and next use ALL plugins against. It creates > pretty tuff scanning. However, it takes significant time even for one host. > Good luck > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Shuang Zheng > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:07 PM > Subject: About penetration test via Nessus > > Hi, > > I'm new in using the nessus test tool. > I wish to use the nessus for penetration testing in my private network. I > did "Scan the port" with all the built-in plug-ins from either Nessus client > GUI or command line from Linux. > Note: in .nessusrc, the "safe_check" = no, all the plugin IDs are set to > "Yes". > > In Linux: the following command is used: > nessus -c /home/arte/.nessus.rc -T html -q localhost 1241 nessus nessus > /usr/bin/target2.txt output > > I wonder if the above method for penetration test is right ? What is the > right way to do for Nessus to dislay the penetration result in the report? > (or show the end user what type of plug-ins are used?) > > Thank you in advance, > Sue > > > ________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it > now. > ________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > > > ________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > > > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > -- -p1g SnortCP, C|HFI, TNCP, TECP, NACP, A+ ,,__ o" )~ oink oink ' ' ' ' If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked. -- former White House cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
