Using Nessus.

bukspoon · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:06 am Post subject: Using Nessus.

I have nessus installed on my laptop. I was wondering if anyone could assist me in the use of Nessus. I have to follow the doc for Nessus.orh with no success. I am completely new to Nessus and Linux. I have just finished my very first install of Gentoo which rocks thanks to all here! My first Question: I ran the 'nessus-adduser' and followed the instr. to add a user. When I start up Nessus as root and try to login using the new user and to localhost, port 1241 I get 'Could not open a connection to localhost'. I have tried to use the ip that was assigned to the laptop but nothing. What Am I doing wrong?

Thanks for the help out there and putting up with noobs like me. :wink:

tkdfighter · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 1:48 pm Post subject:

Did you start the nessus daemon?

~L~ · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:01 pm Post subject:

I had the same problem.

ps -ef | grep nessus
didn't show the daemon, I did /etc/init.d/nessusd restart and then it worked.

dewke · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:57 pm Post subject:

Before you start the nessus server you need to create a cert and add users:

as root run: