On May 29, 2008, at 12:08 AM, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: > *** 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
If you're indeed willing to enable plugins that intentionally try to be destructive (for example, crashing a service or causing a kernel panic), then disable safe checks, either by setting 'safe_checks' to "no" in the client config or unchecking "Safe checks" in the client. > I guess this is an old page: > > http://www.tifaware.com/perl/update-nessusrc/ Why do you say "old"? I just updated it the other day after some feedback from Larry Petty. > [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. As the error says, you need to set the variable 'nessusd_host' (and several others) in the script. This is also noted in the installation instructions on the web page. George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
