On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:48:40PM +0000, Mark Watts wrote: > I've created a user/certificate now and put the .pem files in ~/nessus/ for my > user. I ran nessus once from the console (as my user) to generate a .nessusrc > file and then added the three settings you mentioned at the beginning of this > thread. > > When I run nessus now, I have to enter a password. If I use something random, > I get some dialogues about ssl certificates (which is promising) however I > then get a 'Login failed' message. (Argh!)
I made a slight mistake before in step 3b -- the client config file expects the parameter trusted_ca rather than ca_file to point to the CA's certificate. If that doesn't fix the problem, give me some idea what those dialogues say. > How do I set a password for this user, and do I have to actually do this since > I'm using certificates. The nessus client will always prompt for a password / passphrase. If you're using pubkey auth, it will use it to decrypt your private key only if it needs to. In one of my earlier messages, I told you how to encrypt the private keys using the openssl rsa command. If you did that, you should enter the passphrase as your password; otherwise, any non-null string should work. George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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