Re: Newbie question: fetching plugins manually

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Michel van der Kleij wrote:

> At work we would like to use Nessus running on Solaris 8 to scan our intranet.
> Everything (i.e. scans) works fine and I would like to update the plugins.
>
> The problem is that machines on our intranet DO NOT have access to the
> internet, not even through a proxy. Therefore nessus-update-plugins and
> nessus-fetch will not work for me as I understand it and I must retrieve
> plugins from my (Linux, or Windows if I really must) workstation and pass it
> on to the Nessus-server. The workstation does have proxied access to internet.
>
> Can anyone advise me on how to set something like this up?

Change the script to get the file from another source (say your
workstation). Then make sure you put the latest file there in time to get
the latest scripts and run the script as usual before you start your
tests.

Hugo.

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