Get server plugin options command line

[Brennon Williams]

I have attached a file.. (hopefully it wont get trashed by the server) It
contains exactly what the server sends to the client upon login.

The information is used to setup the client options and indeed contains a
full list of plugins and the Server Preferences and Plugin Preferences.

My server version is 2.0.12, which returns less preference values than
previous versions of the nessusd server because the NMAP options are no
longer sent in the stream (I'm not sure if the NMAP plugin is still in the
server though)

Although the start of this file looks a mess because it is all just plugin
info, go straight to the bottom of the file and work backwards. From there
you will see a list of preferences and their default values, including the
radio values.

When I send these back to the server, it must be EXACTLY as it is written
e.g. "Services[entry]:Network connection timeout : <|> 5" must be sent.

I hope this helps.

Brennon Williams

-----Original Message-----
From: nessus-bounces at list.nessus.org
[mailto:nessus-bounces at list.nessus.org]On Behalf Of George Theall
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:48 PM
To: nessus at list.nessus.org
Subject: Re: Get server plugin options command line

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 12:32:41PM -0700, davenessus at davewking.com wrote:

>    I'm looking for a way to get a list of all the options the nessusd
> server can accept from the command line.  I've used nessus with the -P
> switch and this gives me most of what I need.  For radio buttons this
> only lists the default it seems and there's no way to get the other
> options.  Does the gui have the other options coded into it, or is it
> reading it from the server somehow?

The client gets values for options from the NTP PREFERENCES message sent
by the server at logon.  [nessus-core/doc/ntp/plugin_prefs.txt has
details.] As far as I know, there's no way to recover them completely
using the nessus client from the commandline, although with some
gyrations, though, you could use openssl's s_client to do this.

George
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theall at tifaware.com
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