Nessus 2.2.1 plugins via proxy

[Renaud Deraison]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:54:17PM -0000, Yeomans, Andrew wrote:
> Having problems getting nessus-update-plugins / nessus-fetch to work with a
> proxy. 
> I've tried creating nessus-fetch.rc (as seen from "strings") but still get
> errors.

In theory, you need to create a 
	/usr/local/etc/nessus/nessus-fetch.rc

which contains :

	proxy=192.168.1.1
	proxy_port=8080

and optionally :

	proxy_username=login
	proxy_password=foobar


You can check if the settings work by doing :

	nessus-fetch --url http://www.nessus.org/index.php out.txt

and see if 'out.txt' contains the relevant information.

If that does not work for you, feel free to contact me directly,
preferably with a network trace of what's going on the wire
(so that I can determine what your proxy told you).

				-- Renaud