Hello,
as the next step after new openvas-libraries and openvas-libnasl, we now need
an update of openvas-server to finally get into effect some new features
and to prepare further ones that will be usable with new OpenVAS-Client and
new NASL scripts respectively.
Changes that take effect:
* New default port: 9390 (as assigned by IANA)
* Bug-fix: now during startup, openvasd will show the correct
total number of plugins and not count the *.asc signature files
anymore.
* user-specific cache not initialized anymore (.desc in
/var/lib/openvas/users/USER/plugins/ not created anymore)
* It is not mandatory to be root for stating openvasd anymore.
This makes testing the server a lot easier for developers/.
Of course, when started as low-privileged user not all
features can be executed by openvasd.
* New server preference "cache_folder" allows to define the location
of the cache (so far it was ($plugins_folder/.desc).
Default for new openvasd.conf is now /var/cache/openvas
Existing installations need to add cache_folder = /var/cache/openvas
manually to openvasd.conf and take care the directory exists.
* Having a directory structure in $plugin_folder is now supported. openvasd
will recurse into the sub directories.
* New option for openvasd.conf "include_folders" allows to specify
search paths for NASL include directive. This aids the use of
subdirectories for plugins. By default it is $plugins_folder to be
compatible with old flat(all in one directory) style
Note: The OpenVAS NVT feed will not use the new features for subdirs and
include paths
as long as the OpenVAS 1.0.x and OpenVAS 2.0.0 releases are supported.
An exception might be OVAL-support.
Changes that prepare features:
* per-target SSH credentials settings (needs new client and new
ssh_authorization.nasl)
* openvasd-config offers some more options (sysconfdir). This will allows
add-on tools
to learn about the OpenVAS installation without guessing.
Please let us know if you want anything in this module before the release.
It is planned to have the release mid to end of next week.
Best
Jan
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