> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have nessusd 2.0.7 running on a debian kernel 2.4.20. I use nessus
> client 1.4.4 on windows to connect to it. My problem is that I can't get
> hydra brute force attack to work. I have enabled nmap portscan on
> well-known services port of 23/TCP. I have also only enabled "Brute force
> login (hydra)" plug-in. This plug-in is also configured with a valid login
> and password files. When I run the these attacks against the target, the
> only thing I get in the report is that nmap found telnet service running
> on the target but nothing on hydra. Then when I check the nessusd log
> files it shows that the hydra test completed in sub-second time.
>
> It seems in the past people had problems with hydra and nessus and I
> thought that was fixed with the latest version.
>
> Can anyone confirm this?
>
> thanks
> asrap