On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:47:40AM +0000, Mark Watts wrote:

> Ok, I decided that I'd separate the keys/certs...
> 
> I created /var/lib/nessus/CA and put the serverkey.pem and cakey.pem files 
> into it, changing /etc/nessus/nessus.conf to reflect this.
> 
> On running nessus-mkcert-client, it then complains that:
> 
>       /var/lib/nessus/CA/cacert.pem: not found or not a file

Let me guess...  $sharedstatedir in nessus-mkcert-client is defined as
"/var/lib" too.  Change it to "/etc". 

> Which is mighty odd, since nessus.conf is explicitly saying where that should 
> be:
> 
>       cert_file = /etc/nessus/CA/servercert.pem
>       key_file = /var/lib/nessus/CA/serverkey.pem
>       ca_file = /etc/nessus/CA/cacert.pem

Actually, the settings are embedded in the script rather than read from the
server; nessus-core/configure should take care of setting them appropriate
when building from source.


George
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