Re: How to add hydra to nessus

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 09:35:41PM +0000, access-list@comcast.net wrote:

> I found out that my nessus wx windows GUI that points to
> my linux installation 3.0.2 of nessus does not give me the option to
> choose the "brute force" family.  

That family only contains plugins that use Hydra; that you don't see it 
suggests there's a problem on the nessusd side loading those plugins.

> The hydra plugins are downloaded
> into /opt/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins.  Therefore, I downloaded and
> installed hydra 5.3.  However I still cannot get the plugins to
> "load".  I found mention of a PATH in regards to nessusd
> (http://mail.nessus.org/pipermail/nessus/2004-March/msg00154.html)
> but i do not understand.

For the sake of discussion, suppose you installed Hydra under 
/usr/local/hydra. You need to ensure that appears in the PATH 
environment variable when nessusd is started. For example, if you start 
nessusd from the commandline, you could do:

  PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/hydra /opt/nessus/sbin/nessusd -D

assuming you use sh / ksh / bash as your shell.

If you start nessusd through a startup script, edit that and tweak the 
PATH variable as appropriate.

George
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theall@tenablesecurity.com
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