Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1) cd /root
mkdir nessus
vi /root/nessus/target
#Enter the target server/ips to scan separated by commas
2) Run the nessus client for the first time using the following command
/opt/nessus/bin/nessus -T html -qxV serverip 1241 username pass
/root/nessus/target /root/nessus/results.html
/opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-update-plugins
To enable all plugins including ones which can crash a remote host , do the
following
a)
vi /usr/local/etc/nessus/nessusd.conf
Replace yes with no on the line safe_checks
b)
run the following command
/opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-update-plugins
c)
perl /root/nessus/update-nessusrc -c
"attack,infos,mixed,scanner,settings,denial,destructive_attack,kill_host"
/root/nessus/.nessusrc
d)
cd /root/nessus
vi .nessusrc
Search for the line safe_checks and replace yes with no
Search for the line
begin(PLUGIN_SET)
Replace no with yes after every plugin id for where you find a no