Re: [Nessus 3.2.1] adduser rules issue

"George A. Theall" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jul 22, 2008, at 6:25 AM, Chris Henderson wrote:

> I added a user (this user is not a Linux system user) using
> nessus-adduser(8) - I only want this user to be able to scan the
> machine he connects from. So I added rules "accept client_ip" and
> "default deny", ^D. But this is not working. When this user logs on
> from the Windows client machine he can scan any host or subnet he
> wants.
>
> I have looked on the server -
> /opt/nessus/var/nessus/users/user_name/auth/rules file - and it has
> two entries: accept client_ip and default deny.

Have you verified the contents of the rules file in question? Would  
you mind sending me a copy?

Are you sure you're logging in with the username to which the rules  
are supposed to apply?  And to the right server?

George
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