Nessus 2.0.7 + Nmap 3.45

[Michel Arboi]

"Gilbert, Austin" <AGILBERT at sjmc.org> writes:

> 1)  Is nessus doing the match on the "nmap --version" string or the
> header while nmap is running??

Not when it is running, just when the plugin is initializing.
(BTW, there is a kind of cache, maybe you need to "touch"
nmap_wrapper.nes)

> 2)  Is Nessus doing doing a regex match on this string or a string
> compare?

sscanf ~ String compare.

> The Nmap plugin is still not showing up in either NessusWX or in the
> native Xwindows client. 

Then the problem is elsewhere. Is nmap in $PATH for the user who runs
nessusd?