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| Subject: | Re: nessusrc owner changes from time to time |
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| Date: | Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:24:29 -0400 |
On Mar 27, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Pedro Pozuelo wrote:
I usually launch scans with user www-data and that is usually the owner of nessusrc; but time to time I have notice that client cannot read it and I have realized that the owner has changed (becoming root)
The commandline client rewrites the client configuration file each time it is used to run a scan.
I have looked for a cron job, a pattern or anything that could have done this, but I have found nothing.
Have you tried correlating the timestamp on the config file when ownership is changed to your log files? For example, nessusd.messages should tell you when a Nessus user launches a scan. George -- theall@tenablesecurity.com _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list Nessus@list.nessus.org http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
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