Re: disabling safe_check

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

On 05/17/07 00:52, miraj wrote:

>     I am not able to enable plugins that can crash the remote hosts.
>
> See the warning message:
> =========================================================
> [miraj@miraj ~]$ nessus -P localhost 1241 username password  | grep 
> safe_check
> *** The plugins that have the ability to crash remote services or hosts
> have been disabled. You should activate them if you want your security
> audit to be complete
> safe_checks = 0
..
> [miraj@miraj ~]$ grep safe_check $HOME/.nessusrc
> safe_checks = no

It would be helpful to actually see the contents of $HOME/.nessusrc. For 
example, one cause for this could be the lack of either a SCANNER_SET or 
PLUGIN_SET block in the config file.
George
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