To the list,

Is anyone using certificates with Nessus which are issued by an internal
Certificate Authority (CA).  If so, could you share with me how you have set
up Nessus to import these certificates on the Nessus Host?

Kind Regards,

Rafael Rosado, CISSP, CISA
Lucent Technologies
IT Security Manager - Corporate Security
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lionel CONS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 7:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Certificate Authentication

Hello,

I'm trying to make Nessus use some certificates instead of the normal
password authentication but I fail to make it work. I've looked at the
documentation (including README_SSL) and Google in vain... Does anyone use
certificate authentication?

FYI, here is what I've done:
 - create a server certificate with nessus-mkcert
 - create a client certificate with nessus-mkcert-client
 - added a user with nessus-adduser with the corresponding DN
 - put the correct paths in nessud.conf and .nessursc
 - restarted the daemon

In the procedure, I'm never prompted for a password so I guess the client
key is not password protected. However, the Nessus GUI wants a password.
When I type one, I get a "failed login" message.

Any help would be appreciated...
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