Brown, Scott CTR -Navair - Siap wrote: > Good afternoon. I'm in a trail process for Nessus and I ran into a > slight problem. I have a RHEL 5.2 machine which I'd like to scan. I > created an account on the machine and gave it adm, root, and ssh > privileges. In the Default Policy -> Credentials -> SSH Settings I put > in the SSH user name and password. After running the scan the results > keep saying Local Checks Failed due to the credentials provided for the > scan did not allow us to log into the remote host. I've ssh'd from > another box using the same L : P and it worked fine. Am I missing > something here? Thanks...
Hi there, When you perform you Nessus scan, are there any SSH error logs on the host you are scanning? Can you SSH from the box that your Nessus scanner is deployed on? Have you tried different valid username/passwords? Ron Gula Tenable Network Security _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
