We need to click on the “Select” button and agree to the Subscription Agreement, after which we’ll need to provide our first name, last name and email address. To obtain an activation code, we must visit Nessus Activation Code and choose “Using Nessus at Home”, which is shown in the picture below: This file is automatically created when we activate our Nessus installation with an activation code.

The error message says that there is no nessus-fetch.rc file present. This can be seen here:įetching the newest updates from …Ĭould not validate this nessus-fetch.rc file – has it been copied from another system? If we try to update our Nessus installation to include all the latest plugins, we need to run nessus-update-plugins command, which won’t succeed at this current time. We can see that we created a new user with username admin and password admin (which cannot be seen, because it’s not shown on the screen for security purposes), and we specified the user to be administrator.

This user will have ‘admin’ privileges within the Nessus server Please see the nessus-adduser manual for the rules syntax.Įnter the rules for this user, and enter a BLANK LINE once you are done: (the user can have an empty rules set) For instance, you may want him to be able to scan his own host only.

Nessusd has a rules system which allows you to restrict the hosts that admin has the right to test. We can do that with the command below:ĭo you want this user to be a Nessus ‘admin’ user ? (can upload plugins, etc…) (y/n) : y To install Nessus we must run the following command:Īfterwards we need to add an administrator that will be in charge of the Nessus configuration.

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