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RE: How to execute nessus client for linux.

Subject: RE: How to execute nessus client for linux.
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 09:14:58 -0400
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:30:31PM +0500,
devasundar_a@sifycorp.com wrote:

Once I execute this command I am getting Login failed.

 [root@XX.XX root]# nessus -Vx -c ./nessusrc -q localhost
1241 user pass ./targets.txt ./results.txt

nessus : Login failed

Are you typing the command exactly as this? If yes, then
that's your mistake. Otherwise, have you defined a user with
nessus-adduser, set it to use password authentication, and
supplied the proper password? You may want to look at the
first step of the Nessus demo:

  http://www.nessus.org/demo/index.php?step=1

George

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