Re: policy storage, Nessus 3, OSX

that would explain it. I rarely save sessions for my current work.

On Aug 17, 2006, at 8:06 AM, Renaud Deraison wrote:

> Hi Doug,
>
>
> On Aug 17, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Douglas Nordwall wrote:
>
> > I am running nessus 3.0.3 build 2g120 on OSX 10.4.7 and most of the
> > time, I'm connecting to a nessus 3 server on a redhat linux. My
> > question is: where are the custom policies installed, and why might
> > I not be able to save policies in between sessions? Yes, I have
> > clicked the save between multiple sessions box :)
>
> The custom policies are either saved in the session itself when you
> save it (if they are tied to the policy) or stored in ~/Library/
> Nessus/Policies.xml if you want to share a policy accross different
> sessions.
>
> However, there is a buglet in the current version of the GUI which
> won't save a shared policy until the current session is saved on disk.
>
>
>                                 -- Renaud
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