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How to run Nessus 4.2 on Backtrack 4

Saturday, 12 December 2009

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How to run Nessus 4.2 on Backtrack 4
Installing Tenable Nessus 4.2
Running Nessus

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Step3: Running Nessus

As already mentioned above, Nessus is now using a web based interface to manage scans and their results. For that reason, you need to start nessusd on your local machine and to run your favorite web browser on the client site. Please keep in mind that Nessus runs a web server on port 8834.
Start, stop or restart nessusd like this:

/etc/init.d/nessusd start
/etc/init.d/nessusd stop
/etc/init.d/nessusd restart

You can double-check that Nessus is really running using the following two commands:

top
ps –ax | grep nessusd

Open your favorite browser and use the following URL:

https://127.0.0.1:8834

Backtrack 4 is using Firefox with the NoScript Addon. It will block per default the running scripts. To see the login page, you need to disable this feature for the local webserver. Please see the pictures below. Please use your user account you have created in step 2.

If you haven’t worked with Nessus before please use the following information and videos:

http://www.nessus.org/demos/
http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2009/11/nessus-42-released.html

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