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RE: How to execute nessus client for linux.

Subject: RE: How to execute nessus client for linux.
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:09:06 -0400
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 04:32:00PM -0700, Chris Gruenwald
wrote:

how
do you reset the password for a nessus user?  Where can I
look to see a list of current Nessus users?   

Take a look in the 'nessus/users' directory under Nessus'
local state dir, by default /usr/local/var. Each user
defined to nessusd will have a subdirectory under there.

As for changing passwords, there's no real simple way to do
this. The best approach is to first either rename the
particular user's directory under 'nessus/users' or remove
it if you don't want to preserve any KBs / session data; run
nessus-adduser; and then copying over KBs and session data
if you want that. [Of course, this assumes that you're using
password rather than certificate-based authentication.]

George

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