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Re: Securing nessusd

Subject: Re: Securing nessusd
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 05:20:57 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Patrick Derwael wrote:

Hi list,

I'm in a process of securing my Nessus scanner.
Currently, the scanner runs with the default startup options (-D -q),
which makes it accessible by anyone. I want it to reject any connection
attempt, except from 2 IPs (adding the -a option)

The scanner'IP (on a RedHat box) is x.y.z.218, and I'm running NessusWX on
x.y.z.219.
When I start the daemon with "nessusd -D -q -a x.y.z.218,x.y.z.219", it
rejects every connection, including those from x.y.z.218/219.

Does that mean that -a only accepts one single IP, or am I doing something
wrong ?????

As Jasper pointed out the '-a' option configures which IP address nessusd will listen for connections on. I think what you are looking for is the nessusd.rules file. Syntax : accept|reject address/netmask

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 - Josh
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