Re: [Nessus 3.2.1] adduser rules issue

"Chris Henderson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks for your help.

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 3:06 AM, George A. Theall
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?

Sorry but I don't know how to verify the content of the rules file. I
have just created a user called "test" with default deny and here is
the content of the rules file for that user :

# cat /opt/nessus/var/nessus/users/test/auth/rules
default deny

As usual this user can scan _any_ host.

If you let me know about any other file or how to verify the content,
I am more than happy to do so.

Also, in nessusd.conf the admin user's name is there but I don't see
the test user's name. I am assuming it's normal.

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

I haven't made any mistake there.
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