Excellent! Glad things are working now..

Paul

Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:59:25AM -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:44:18AM -0800, Paul Davis wrote:
>>> Ray,
>>>
>>> What steps other than disabling the firewall and enabling remote
>>> desktop were taken on this system? There's a blog entry for scanning
>>> Windows Vista systems for FDCC Compliance which details steps to
>>> enable policy compliance scanning on systems with Security Center
>>> such as Vista (or 2008).
>>>
>>> I am currently successfully scanning a Windows 2008 system for audit
>>> compliance, and IIRC, I configured it using the steps in this blog
>>> entry:
>>>
>>> http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2008/02/testing-windows.html
>>>
>>> Paul
>> Paul, I believe I found the issue.  My initial hypothesis that I had
>> something misconfigured on the Windows 2008 side was incorrect... I
>> took a peek at the Nessus scanner logs and saw the following:
>>
>>   Couldn't load /opt/nessus//lib/nessus/plugins/nessus_tcp_scanner.nes
>>   - libssl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>>     directory
>>
>> This is using the Fedora 8 RPM of Nessus.  However, Fedora 8 only has a
>> libssl.so.6 file. :)  Probably some libraries within Nessus need to be
>> relinkned against the proper .so...
>>
>> However, easy workaround was to create a symlink from libssl.so.4 (and,
>> as it turns out, libcrypto.so.4) to the corresponding .so.6 files.
>>
>> Re-ran the scan and everything seems to be working now.
>>
>> Sorry for the wild goose chase!
>>
> 
> Actually, one additional step was required on my part to get the
> Windows 2008 scan to work completely correctly.  I had to disable UAC
> for local accounts (done via the registry).
> 
> Support pointed me to this blog link which contained the relevant
> instructions:
> 
>   http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2008/02/testing-windows.html
> 
> Everything is working as-expected now.
> 
> Thanks!
> Ray
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Paul Davis
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Tenable Network Security Inc
Phone: 410.872.0555 x245
www.tenablesecurity.com

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