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Man page of OpenVAS-MKCERT

OpenVAS-MKCERT

Section: User Manuals (8)
Updated: January 2011
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NAME

openvas-mkcert - Creates a scanner certificate

SYNOPSIS

openvas-mkcert [ -q ] [ -f ]

DESCRIPTION

The OpenVAS Scanner protects its communication with clients by using SSL. SSL requires the scanner to present a certificate to the client, and the client can optionally present a certificate to the scanner.

This script openvas-mkcert creates a certificate authority (if none exists already) and generates the scanner certificate.

OPTIONS

-q quickly generates a new certificate, without asking any question

-f force overwriting of already existing certificate files

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE OpenVAS PROJECT

The canonical places where you will find more information about the OpenVAS project are:

: http://www.openvas.org/ (Official site)

AUTHOR

openvas-mkcert was derived from nessus-mkcert which is was written by Michel Arboi <arboi@alussinan.org> and Renaud Deraison <deraison@cvs.nessus.org>

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE OpenVAS PROJECT
AUTHOR

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