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Backtrack CD and Nessus 3
By klard | June 26, 2006
I am messing with the Backtrack CD again and decided that I wanted to run nessus from it. Doing some research I saw a few links where apparently Tenable declined the guys from remote-exploits request to ship Nessus 3 with the CD….which seems reasonable and is certainly within their rights. The problem is that there is no nessus package for Slackware, therefore you have to use one of the other linux packages. I started by reading a link here about installing nessus 3 on Slackware using the Fedora 4 rpm. No problem….well not really. After a bit of banging around on the remote-exploit forums and a few other places (which I really should have links for), I finally put together a fairly concise bit of instructions and have verified they work on the Backtrack 1.0 final CD. See below:
Download Nessus FC4
rpm2tgz Nessus-3.0.3-fc4.i386.rpm (convert the rpm to a package)
installpkg Nessus-3.0.3-fc4.i386.tgz (install the package)
cp -R /opt/nessus/lib/* /lib/
PATH=$PATH:/opt/nessus/sbin (add nessus to your path)
/opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-mkcert
/opt/nessus/sbin/nessusd -D (start the nessus server)
/opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-adduser
Download Nessus Client
cp NessusClient-1.0.0.RC5.tar.gz /root/Desktop
(I downloaded the package to a usb drive and for some reason unzipping it to the usb drive causes all kinds of permission errors....so I just copy it to the desktop)
cd /root/Desktop
tar xvfz NessusClient-1.0.0.RC5.tar.gz
cd NessusClient-1.0.0.RC5
./configure
make && make install
NessusClient (starts the client)
This works every time, I have scripted it so I can just mount my usb drive and run the script and I wind up with a nice Nessus Client window in a short time.
Topics: Backtrack CD, Linux |
July 7th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
It works!!! Great! Thank you.
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:00 am
Very helpful. Thanks.