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Install Nessus on Ubuntu 9.04

In the Vulnerability Scanner world, many commercial products, including Retina, Qualyst and FoundStone, still, there are some open source that widely adopted. Nessus is one of them. The following are the list of Vulnerablility Scanners.

  • FoundStone (Macfee)
  • HarrisSTATGuardian (Harris)
  • ISS (IBM)
  • Nessus (Open Source)
  • OVAL
  • Qualys
  • Retina (eEye Digital Security)

For Nessus, since it’s open source, it’s easy to install on most of Linux distribution. In here, I use Ubuntu 9.04. You can check your distribution by

cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jaunty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=”Ubuntu 9.04″

Then, we can just follow the steps below:

  1. sudo apt-get install nessus (client)
  2. sudo apt-get install nessusd (server)
  3. sudo nessus-mkcert
  4. sudo nessus-adduser
  5. sudo /etc/init.d/nessusd restart
  6. Go to menu Application->Internet->Nessus to open Nessus client.
  7. After input the target(s), you can start scan.

Screenshot-Scanning network from localhost

Tags: How-to, Linux by hengdu
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