nessus Xclient vs command line version

[nessus at karsites.net]

Thankyou for your helpfull answer George.

I'm sure that you mentioned you prefer the command line
version in a recent email, but I could be wrong.


Kind Regards - Keith


On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, George Theall wrote:

> To: nessus at list.nessus.org
> From: George Theall <theall at tifaware.com>
> Subject: Re: nessus Xclient vs command line version
>
> On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 08:27:30AM +0000, nessus at karsites.net wrote:
>
> > You mentioned recently George that you prefer the
> > command-line version of nessus client.
>
> Are you sure I said _that_?
>
> > Please can you tell me if all the options in the nessus
> > Xclient are available in the command line version?
>
> You have no direct control over option or plugin selection in the
> commandline version.  Instead, you need to either edit the config file
> directly or, in the case of plugins, use another tool (eg, one of the
> update-nessusrc scripts).
>
> That said, once you set up a config file with the GUI, I find it easier
> to launch repeated scans via the commandline.
>
> > Also, what is the command syntax to start nessus from the
> > console, and do I need any input files please?
>
> You need a config file (eg, ~/.nessusrc) and a file containing the
> targets to be scanned (eg, ~/targets). Given those, you run a scan with
> the command:
>
>     nessus -c ~/.nessusrc $nessusd_host 1241 $nessusd_user $pass \
>         ~/tmp/targets ~/tmp/targets.nbe
>
> substituting for $nessusd_host, $nessusd_user, and $pass appropriately.
>
> George
> --
> theall at tifaware.com
>