

When asked about Authentication (pass/cert) : just press enter, as we will not use any. Please see the nessus-adduser(8) man page for the rules syntaxĮnter the rules for this user, and hit ctrl-D once you are done : Him to be able to scan his own host only. Nessusd has a rules system which allows you to restrict the hosts Using /var/tmp as a temporary file holder We have now installed both the client and the server. This will install the nessus client and server, and the -y is used to answer YES to the confirmation of apt-get. I personally use apt-, however, you may choose any other package manager.

With this simple tutorial I will explain how to install Nessus client (nessus) and Nessus Daemon (nessusd) and properly register it, so you don’t end up with the limitations of a non-registered version of the vulnerability scanner.
