Re: How does nessusrc handle the introduction of new plugins?

By default, Nessus enables all plugins that are not explicitly listed as 
"no" in the .nessusrc file. The one exception to this rule is that 
"dangerous" plugins are disabled by default.

If you are interested in automatically accurately keeping your .nessusrc 
file up-to-date, check out one of the update-nessusrc scripts available:

    http://www.tifaware.com/perl/update-nessusrc/
    http://www.edgeos.com/resources/

~Jay



On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Jason Haar wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I run nessus from cron with a "static" nessrc config file - enabling this
> and disable that, etc.
>
> Then I do a nessus-update-plugins - what happens next? Do any new plugins
> automatically get activated?
>
> I know that if I update the plugins and then start the GUI, some of those
> plugins do become enabled, and via "follow dependencies" can easily end up
> with tonnes of plugins becoming activate when I didn't want them to.
>
> I want to routinely update the plugins, but I don't want to have to
> routinely "hand-edit" (even if via the GUI) nessusrc again.
>
> Is there a way around this?

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