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Re: SSH Login - Test

Subject: Re: SSH Login - Test
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:15:06 -0500
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:31:31PM +0000, Paul Rochford wrote:

Hi is there a simple command line check to see if Nessus can
successfully log-in to a Unix system over ssh. I know I can use an ssh
client but I want to ensure Nessus can log in before I run the full
scan,

Try to simulate the connection from the nessusd host. For example, if you'll be using '/home/test/nessus/ssh_key' as your private key / identity to connect to the account 'nessus' on '192.1.1.44', you could run:


  ssh -2 -i /home/test/nessus/ssh_key nessus@192.1.1.44 id

and make sure that you see the output from 'id'. You also may want to check that you can run whatever package management tool is used on the remote to query packages (eg, "rpm -qa" with RedHat / FC).


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