NAME
nessus-update-plugins-gpl - updates the Nessus security checks automatically
SYNOPSIS
nessus-update-plugins
[-v] [-r <pluginname>] [-h] [-i <pluginname>]
DESCRIPTION
The
Nessus Security Scanner
performs several security checks, each of them being coded as an external plugin coded in NASL. As new security holes are published every day, new plugins appear on the Nessus web-site (www.nessus.org), and having an up-to-date nessusd server can be difficult and time consuming.
The script
nessus-update-plugins-gpl
will fetch all the newest GPL security checks for you, install them at the proper location, and restart nessusd(8) so that it take them into account.
nessus-update-plugins
uses lynx(1), tar(1) and gzip(1) to do its job.
This script has been superseded by the
nessus-update-plugins
program and is only provided for those users that do not use the registered
plugin feed. Use of the registered plugin feed, however, is encouraged.
OPTION
"-v"
Will make
nessus-update-plugins-gpl
display the name of the newly installed plugins.
"-r
Make
nessus-update-plugins-gpl
display the source code of the plugin
<pluginname>
"-i
Only install the plugin
pluginname
Show the help summary
PROXIES
If you are behind a web proxy, then read the manual page of
nessus-fetch
to configure nessus-fetch with a proper proxy support.
SECURITY NOTES
nessus-update-plugins-gpl uses lynx(1) to retrieve the archive of the new plugins, at http://www.nessus.org/nasl/all-2.0.tar.gz.
The scripts are not signed
so a cracker may poison your DNS server and force this script to retrieve
scripts on another web server, and then force your nessusd to execute
nasl scripts that do something else.
Even if this can not do much harm (see the NASL reference guide
for more information on that subject) you should be extra careful
regarding this.
So
use this script with caution
SEE ALSO
lynx(1), gzip(1), tar(1)
nessus(1), nessusd(8), nessus-adduser(8)
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE NESSUS PROJECT
The canonical places where you will find more information
about the Nessus project are :
http://www.nessus.org (Official site)
http://cvs.nessus.org (Developers site)
AUTHOR
Renaud Deraison <deraison@cvs.nessus.org>. This script has been released
under the GPL
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