Re: SSH Login - Test

Hi George,

Thanks but I am not using keys, I am using the password option to
login. I was hoping there was a nessus command line I could use to
fire up the relevant nasl script and check to see if it worked for the
ssh_login part.

Regards,

Paul

On 24/01/07, George A. Theall <theall@tenablesecurity.com> wrote:
> 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).
>
>
> George
> --
> theall@tenablesecurity.com
> _______________________________________________
> Nessus mailing list
> Nessus@list.nessus.org
> http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
_______________________________________________
Nessus mailing list
Nessus@list.nessus.org
http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus