Re: SSH Login - Test

["George A. Theall" <theall@tenablesecurity.com>]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:31:31PM +0000, Paul Rochford wrote:

> Hi is there a simple command line check to see if Nessus can
> successfully log-in to a Unix system over ssh. I know I can use an ssh
> client but I want to ensure Nessus can log in before I run the full
> scan,
Try to simulate the connection from the nessusd host. For example, if 
you'll be using '/home/test/nessus/ssh_key' as your private key / 
identity to connect to the account 'nessus' on '192.1.1.44', you could run:
  ssh -2 -i /home/test/nessus/ssh_key nessus@192.1.1.44 id

and make sure that you see the output from 'id'. You also may want to 
check that you can run whatever package management tool is used on the 
remote to query packages (eg, "rpm -qa" with RedHat / FC).

George
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