The Nessus Project: [Demonstration : The First Step ]

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Demonstration :

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

First step : Install Nessus

Nessus is made up of two parts : a client and a server. You need a Unix-like system to use the server (Linux is just fine). In this test, I used the standard client nessus, mainly because I wrote it and because it is the only one that supports the cipher layer.

First : download and install nessusd and nessus

here

Second : create a nessusd account

The utility nessus-adduser takes care of the creation of a new account :

$ nessus-adduser

Addition of a new nessusd user
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Login : renaud
Password : secret
Authentification type (cipher or plaintext) [cipher] : cipher
Now enter the rules for this user, and hit ctrl-D once you are done :
(the user can have an empty rule set)
^D

Login            : renaud
Pssword          : secret
Authentification : cipher
Rules            :

Is that ok (y/n) ? [y] y

user added.

Third : configure your nessus daemon

here

Start nessusd

nessusd -D

Next : the client configuration