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Re: New releases : Nessus 3.0.4, 2.2.9 and NessusClient 1.0.0

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Subject: Re: New releases : Nessus 3.0.4, 2.2.9 and NessusClient 1.0.0
From: "George A. Theall" <theall@tenablesecurity.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:39:11 -0500
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:19:55AM -0600, Brian Loe wrote:

> We've been using an "update-nessusrc.py" script - under the theory
> that unless you run the GUI client, the rc script is not updated with
> the most recently downloaded plugins.

The client has no way of knowing what plugins a server has until it
connects to it and receives a list. With a GUI client, normally this
happens when you first authenticate; you could, though, launch a scan
and then authenticate and you'd have the same behaviour as with the
commandline client.

> If this is incorrect, great - that's one step (which isn't as smooth
> as one might like) we can drop!

You could see whether my own update-nessusrc script works more smoothly:

  http://www.tifaware.com/perl/update-nessusrc/

It uses Perl and offers some additional functionality vis-a-vis Edgeos'
Python-based script.

George
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theall@tenablesecurity.com
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