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> 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.

Heh - I deleted that thinking it wasn't needed :)

> 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.

I vaguely recall a co-worker mentioning this...
I decided not to encrypt for now, on the basis that I want to get it working 
before I clamp it down.

I've changed th ca_file back to trusted_ca and I've tried it set to both 
servercert.pem and cacert.pem (I assume its the latter?)

Regardless how I set these, when I start nessus (as my user) and give it the 
correct username in the login page; any non-null password gets me a simple 
dialog saying "Login Failed". I get no debugging info on the console.

Cheers,

Mark.


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Mark Watts
Senior Systems Engineer
QinetiQ TIM
St Andrews Road, Malvern
GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED

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