Re: Nessus plugin dependencies

George A. Theall wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 03:08:39PM -0300, Federico Petronio wrote:
>
> > if I disable all plugins excepts those I want, what will happen with
> > dependences? will they be enable as needed? 
>
> If you enable dependencies, then any dependent plugins will be run;
> otherwise, they won't generally be run. [I say "Generally" because
> another consideration is that Nessus will run any plugins in the
> ACT_SETTINGS, ACT_INIT, and ACT_END categories.]
>
> > I did a test like that we I
> > set "<id>=yes" to all the plugins I wanted and "<id>=no" to all the
> > rest, but the resulting file in txt format showed:
> >
> > SUMMARY
> >
> >  - Number of hosts which were alive during the test : 0
> ...
> > What could be the cause of this? At least I expected the list of open
> > ports of the target.
>
> Did you enable dependencies for this scan? And if not, did you enable
> any port scanners?

I enabled dependencies but not all the port scanners, only a few:


The strange part is that those are the same that I used in the full
scan, and in that case the result was different. Any idea why this happened?

I test enabling all the scanners, only the rules I chose and dependences
and the report looks better (it shows the host and a couple of the
opened ports).

Kind regards,

-- 
                                        Federico Petronio
                                        fpetronio@activesec.biz
                                        Linux User #129974

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