I have a question about how plugin overriding works in .nessusrc. I did give a list of plugins by naming a file(which contains the relevant plugin scripts) in nessusd.conf and did not have any .nessusrc. Nessus ran and created a .nessusrc but it did not have any line such as begin(PLUGIN_SET) while it had a line with begin(SCANNER_SET).
Now if I want to run only a few plugins and tell nessus about it through .nessusrc, if I just mention a particular plugin via begin(PLUGIN_SET), nessus still runs all the plugins mentioned via nessusd.conf. So, to override the plugins, is it necessary that each plugin mentioned via nessusd.conf have to be explicitely overriden via .nessusrc, by giving yes, and no under begin(PLUGIN_SET)? A clarification would be appreciated. I run nessus via command line (no GTK) and I looked at man nessus and it didnt mention the above details. Perhaps I have missed out on some other documentation? regards, Samir Samir Kelekar Pradnya Systems Bangalore
