Installing Nessus on Kali Linux and Doing a Credentialed Scan (Hacking Illustrated Series InfoSec Tutorial Videos)

Installing Nessus on Kali Linux and Doing a Credentialed Scan (Hacking Illustrated Series InfoSec Tutorial Videos) Installing Nessus on Kali Linux and Doing a Credentialed Scan

I recorded this video twice. First time, the sound was hideous when the fan came on. I decided to re-record it and post both versions. I cover installing Nessus on Kali Linux and doing Nessus credentialed scans using Windows passwords and Linux SSH keys.

2nd Recording, Better Sound:

1st Recording:

Notes:

http://www.tenable.com/products/nessus/select-your-operating-system
http://www.tenable.com/products/ccwnessus-home

On Kali:
dpkg -i Nessus-5.2.4-debian6_i386.deb
/etc/init.d/nessusd start
update-rc.d nessusd enable
iceweasel https://kali:8834
/opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-update-plugins

On Target:
sudo -i
apt-get install openssh-server
adduser nessus
cd /home/nessus
mkdir .ssh

On Kali:
ssh-keygen -t dsa
scp .ssh/id_dsa.pub root@192.168.1.151:/home/nessus/.ssh/authorized_keys

On Target:
chown -R nessus:nessus ~nessus/.ssh/
chmod 0600 ~nessus/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 0700 ~nessus/.ssh/
usermod -a -G sudo nessus

On Kali:
ssh-add
ssh -i .ssh/id_dsa nessus@192.168.1.151 id

Thanks to:
Scott Mohnkern
Glenn Eccard
Ron Gula
Brian Martin

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