Auvegos

Basic Security

External tools that OpenVAS can use have not been installed (apart from Nmap), these external tools being mostly web application vulnerability detection tools including wapiti, Arachni, Nikto and Dirb.
Tools used in OpenVAS: http://www.openvas.org/integrated-tools.html
http://sectools.org/tag/vuln-scanners/

Follow precedure for OpenVAS8: installing redis and enable unixsocket

Test User:

  [root@dai142 dang]#      openvasmd --create-user=testuser 
  User created with password 'a929d24f-dff8-4c35-9e4d-a319a39021a7'.

Create source file:

cat openvas.source 

export OPENVAS_USER=testuser
export OPENVAS_PWD=a929d24f-dff8-4c35-9e4d-a319a39021a7

Test connection

  omp -p 9390 --username=$OPENVAS_USER --password=$OPENVAS_PWD --xml="<help/>"