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Re: disabling safe_check

Subject: Re: disabling safe_check
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 15:40:09 -0400
On 05/17/07 00:52, miraj wrote:

    I am not able to enable plugins that can crash the remote hosts.

See the warning message:
=========================================================
[miraj@miraj ~]$ nessus -P localhost 1241 username password | grep safe_check
*** 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
safe_checks = 0
..
> [miraj@miraj ~]$ grep safe_check $HOME/.nessusrc
> safe_checks = no

It would be helpful to actually see the contents of $HOME/.nessusrc. For example, one cause for this could be the lack of either a SCANNER_SET or PLUGIN_SET block in the config file.

George
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