Nessusrc

[deraison at nessus.org (Renaud Deraison)]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 07:49:02PM -0600, Marukka wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to develop a MacOS X frontend for nessus but am having some
> problems. Specificly I cant find any documentation for the .nessusrc file
> either on google or on nessus's website. All I see is tutorials for the
> windows or x11 frontends. Surely there must be some documentation out there
> for the nessusrc file. Could someone point me in the right direction please?

The best would be to have a look at George Theall's update-nessusrc.
<http://www.tifaware.com/perl/update-nessusrc/>

The config file is divided in sections:

- The server prefs : these are the options which are sent back to the
  nessus daemon. They are all documented on the nessusd side - see
  /usr/local/etc/nessus/nessusd.conf


- the scanner set sections : the list of port scanners that are enabled
  by the user. You can merge this section within PLUGIN_SET, because 
  scanners are plugins

- the plugin set : the list of plugins which are enabled/disabled. The
  format is <id> = [yes|no].

- the server_info section is un-necessary, it simply contains
  information about the last nessusd you connected to (this is used for
  XML export)

- the plugins_prefs section acts like the SERVER_PREFS section, except
  that very few options are thoroughly documented. However the most
  important ones (like SMB password) should be self-explanatory.



				-- Renaud