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Nessus CLI scan: allports? Safe checks no? plugins updated?

Subject: Nessus CLI scan: allports? Safe checks no? plugins updated?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:35:49 -0400
All,

I'm running into some trouble running nessus.. Well, a variety of
troubles.  Maybe someone can help me.

I'm trying to run nessus on a "machine" running a carrier grade linux at
kernel 2.6.10.  Intel based.

Basically the trouble I'm running into is that I need to have the
following settings for my scans

All ports scanned 1-65535
Safe_checks no (so that the following warning will be no more "The
plugins that have the ability to crash remote services or hosts have
been disabled. You should activate them if you want your security audit
to be complete")
And to have my plugins updated to the latest versions

Problem is, the machine I want to run it against, does not have an
external ethernet connection to the outside world (i.e. internet).  It
is a blade in a chassis that only talks over the chassis' internal
backplane.

I want to run a command line scan with the above parameters from another
blade.  None of which do GUI.

I'm in a rut trying to configure the server and client to do all ports,
safe_checks no, and cant seem to get my plugins to update.  I've tried
downloading the all-2.0.tar.gz file from nessus.org and unpacking it in
the nessus/lib/nessus/plugins directory, but I'm not sure that works.

I've also tried the plugin uploading option in both the client config
file /root/.nessusrc and the server config file
nessus/etc/nessus/nessusd.conf

I'm at a loss and out of ideas.  I've seen countless threads on how to
turn safe checks off, none of which have worked, and have seen the
update_nessusrc script which I cant run because my system doesn't have
the perl modules installed.


HELP, I'm swamped.
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