Re: NessusClient creates different config files

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 02:41:57PM -0500, Scott Pate wrote:

> Why would there be two different scanner sets?

The second one is likely the result of NessusClient creating a
preference file because one didn't exist when you fired it up. That is,
look at preferences_new() in:


http://cvsweb.nessus.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/NessusClient/nessus/preferences.c?rev=1.7&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

There's one additional scanner, which would be because that exists on
your nessusd host. [The client will add plugins to a config file that
exist on the nessusd host but won't remove them.]

As for the first, it could be that NessusClient doesn't really "create"
a config file. That is, preferences_new() is only called if the file
doesn't exist; there's no check on size, though, so if, say, the file
exists but is empty, NessusClient would only put those scanners in the
file that it finds on the server.

George
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theall@tenablesecurity.com
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