Re: starting a scan

[ssh ssh]

I started Nessus on redhat before i fired up the client on my windows box 
(and i assured it was running with a 'ps -eaf').  I then connected to the 
server with username and password (the username and password i created with 
'nessus-adduser' and the IP of the redhat box).  I created the user as root. 
 How do i know if it's a super user?

Here is what my windows client outputs once i've connected:

--------------------------------------------------------
SSL connection using DES-CBC3-SHA
Using < NTP/1.2 >
Connection with the server [x.x.x.x] established.
1242 plugins loaded
149 preferences received
0 rules received
----------------------------------------------------------
How do i actually start a scan from here?  I don't see any options in the 
toolbar menu for my nessus client.  Is it because there are no rules?






From: "T.H. Haymore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: ssh ssh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: starting a scan
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:23:56 -0600 (CST)
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, ssh ssh wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am new to nessus and have a simple question.  I successfully installed 
the
> latest version on my redhat 7.2 linux guest OS (VMWare) and installed
> NessusWX on XP box as the client.  I can connect to my server, but what 
I
> want to know is how do i start a scan?  I click on execute and nothing
> happens.  I don't see any opitions for 'start scan' or something like 
that.
> Where do i set my options for a scan?  On the redhat server to scan the
> client or the windows client to scan the server?  Thanks for all 
replies!

First off, you need to start the process you're going to use.  May want to
ssh into the RedHat box and start the Nessus daemon (nessusd -D).  You can
do a ps -x (or whatever) to ensure the daemon has been started.
Then from your front end, you need to connect to the box you want to scan
from.  In your case, the RedHat box.  Login/passwd are needed but
remember, you need to be super user in order to use some of the full
features (nmap -O).


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