Nessus Professional for Linux 10.5.4

[Icarus_Look_Up]

old nessus, you will see compiling plugins and you need to wait before you can login. The latest version is that you can able to login but it will just said in lower part of login that it's still compiling so other functionality will not be used. Just wait

 

[Costa]

On the clean Debian 10 the script may lead to the problem:
As I found out it may happen in case of some issue with nessusd.service
In my case it happened several times because nessusd.service was not found.

1) For the clean system the command
dpkg -i Nessus-10.4.2-debian9_amd64.deb
may lead to the error
this error could be resolved with the following

2) IMHO the mentioned dpkg command won't success if the .deb file has just downloaded (may be due some delays in writing file cache). So you need to execute the dpkg command manually and continue with the script from that place.
How to resolve the problem? May be delay for 5-10 seconds before dpkg could help.

 

[ziza07]

Yeah it might look like a big script but it was a very quick and rough hack / proof of concept. It should be improved to be more fault tolerant, have more error checking, more retries etc. Next version.. (or contributions welcome, etc).

 

[fefeeshanny77]

To be fair, i just use the script for reference and fool the setup all manually, and it always works to me

 

[receiver]

works for me !!!
What with the plugin updates?

Luke,

 

[fefeeshanny77]

If you need plugin updates, just apply for a trial for Nessus Home (i don't remember the current name)
Then install like usual

 

[Sydor77]

I can't replicate the issue @athe1st was having. Tried fresh installs of Debian 9 and 10 using the netinst iso's and Nessus installed perfectly.

If the root of your cause is dpkg executing too fast you can use sleep before the dpkg command:

The script will pause for 15 seconds (just to be on the safe side) before installing Nessus

 

[receiver]

Question: Is there also a Linux ARM64 version of the Nessus software?

Luke,

 

[ziza07]

Yes. If you go look at the Tenable website and/or search for "nessus downloads" in any search engine and familiarize yourself with the product, you'll see they support a variety of platforms. I chose to write scripts for just a few of the most popular, because in large part it's just a batch file to help automate the process (download, update, crack) and I'd seen a few other people over the years get it partly right. So long as they keep releasing with the same trick being possible we can have things like this but at some point it might change then would need to be cracked (or bought - it is sometimes a good idea to pay for things and support the authors, for example if you profit from use of the software).

 

[Costa]

Thanks for suggestions @FreshBird
In my case it was VM under VMware. I have succeeded with the original script after package manual installation and shrinking the script (already executed commands)

 

[LomaGouse1]

when install complete, i can't click button New scan

 

[ziza07]

Each time it starts, Nessus recompiles the plugins and the interface is not usable until it is done. There have been cases where this took hours. For others it can be half hour, depending on your system and your luck. It is the normal expected behavior of Nessus. It's like greased lightening compared to Nexpose though.

 

[proxy]

thanks,the download link of nessus-10.4.2 is unavailable。

 

[ziza07]

The current version of Nessus is 10.5.1 and you could almost certainly just look in the script and adjust the version to match the downloads on the tenable web site and it should work. None of us have had time to update the scripts. I have an idea about that, but really this is simple stuff and a person doing security audits should be able to sort out a batch file or shell script and fix simple problems at that level. No offense to anyone having trouble.. Actually I think someone contributed some 10.5.1 versions of the scripts in the pwn3rzs chat channel in telegram.

 

[proxy]

Thank you for your reply, I thought the script only works on 10.4.2

 

[Dezzeraldo]

Problem: Nessus server unreachable? Trying again..

 

[NafCidez]

Use the root not from user, I mean make a password for root with passwd then logout and go with root it will work

 

[Dezzeraldo]

that i did , bro
sudo

 

[NafCidez]

Just "sudo" wont help you! Change the password for root with "passwd root" command, then log with the root user not with normal user "kali", after the install go back to "kali" user and you good to go)

 

[variousartist18]

it didn't work bro