NESSUS-UPDATE-PLUGINS(8) User Manuals NESSUS-UPDATE-PLUGINS(8)NAMEnessus-update-plugins - updates the Nessus security checks automati‐
cally
SYNOPSISnessus-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 will fetch all the newest security
checks for you, install them at the proper location, and restart nes‐
susd(8) so that it take them into account.
nessus-update-plugins uses lynx(1), tar(1) and gzip(1) to do its job.
OPTION-v Will make nessus-update-plugins display the name of the newly
installed plugins.
-r <pluginname>
Make nessus-update-plugins display the source code of the plugin
<pluginname>
-i <pluginname>
Only install the plugin pluginname
-h 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 NOTESnessus-update-plugins 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 ALSOlynx(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
The Nessus Project May 2000 NESSUS-UPDATE-PLUGINS(8)