I am using a command line nessus client scanning within a LAN using [20:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/stan]nessus -q minkay.sfsu.edu 1241 kayve kayve in.nbe out3.html *** 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
[20:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/stan]uname -a FreeBSD kv_bsd.sfsu.edu 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 [21:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/stan] [20:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/stan]pkg_info | grep essus Nessus-3.2.0 A powerful security scanner nessus-2.2.9_1 A security scanner: looks for vulnerabilities in a given ne nessus-libnasl-2.2.9_1 Nessus Attack Scripting Language nessus-libraries-2.2.9_1 Libraries for Nessus, the security scanner nessus-plugins-2.2.9_1 Plugins for Nessus, the security scanner [20:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/stan] I found some advice about using a script called update-nessusrc but that is failing I guess this is an old page: http://www.tifaware.com/perl/update-nessusrc/ I was trying to take the advice to do a command that updated the nessusrc to make the script scan the dangerous ports as follows: [19:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/stan]./update-nessusrc.pl -c "attack,infos,mixed,scanner,se ttings,denial,destructive_attack,kill_host" ~/.nessusrc *** You must set $nessusd_host! *** at ./update-nessusrc.pl line 335 but as you can see, this particular script that I downloaded is not working. Thanks in advance to anyone willing to give me the time of day. *----------------------------------------------------------* Kayven Riese, BSCS, MS (Physiology and Biophysics) (415) 902 5513 cellular http://kayve.net Webmaster http://ChessYoga.org *----------------------------------------------------------* _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
