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Re: feeding nmap results to nessus using NASL in config file

from [George A. Theall] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: Re: feeding nmap results to nessus using NASL in config file
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:07:34 -0500 
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:31:00PM -0500, Pinsky, Daniel wrote:


If I enable the nmap –o (os fingerprint flag).


The only plugin I think that uses nmap's OS fingerprinting is
find_ap.nasl, which tries to identify access points.


Even if I enable all nessus plugins for example will nessus only run the
pluggins based on what nmap returns as OS detection? To recap if I
enable nessus redhat and windows plugins. 


If you enable "Optimize the test" (or "optimize_test" in the client
config), nessusd will skip execution of plugins like local security
checks unless the KB for the target contains the appropriate key(s); eg,
 "Host/RedHat/rpm-list" in the case of Redhat local security checks. In
the case of this key, it gets populated by ssh_get_info.nasl provided
nessusd can ssh into a RedHat box and retrieve a list of installed packages.

George
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