nessus-tool/nessusd.conf

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:22:00 +0200

author
Michael Schloh von Bennewitz <michael@schloh.com>
date
Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:22:00 +0200
changeset 178
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Change unfortunate but partly useful overreaching security tradeoff.
The principle of allocating each running process an individual system
user and group can have security benefits, however maintining a plethora
of users, groups, processes, file modes, file permissions, and even
nonportable file ACLs on a host serving from a hundred processes has
some security disadvantages. This tradeoff is even worse for systems
like OpenPKG which benefit from administration transparency through the
use of minimal system intrusion and only three usage privilege levels.

     1 ##
     2 ##  nessusd.conf -- Nessus Daemon Configuration
     3 ##
     5 #   paths
     6 rules                    = @l_prefix@/etc/nessus/nessusd.rules
     7 users                    = @l_prefix@/etc/nessus/nessusd.users
     8 logfile                  = @l_prefix@/var/nessus/nessusd.log
     9 dumpfile                 = @l_prefix@/var/nessus/nessusd.dump
    10 cert_file                = @l_prefix@/var/nessus/CA/servercert.pem
    11 key_file                 = @l_prefix@/var/nessus/CA/serverkey.pem
    12 ca_file                  = @l_prefix@/var/nessus/CA/cacert.pem
    13 plugins_folder           = @l_prefix@/lib/nessus/plugins
    15 #   options
    16 max_hosts                = 30
    17 max_checks               = 10
    18 max_threads              = 15
    19 be_nice                  = yes
    20 log_whole_attack         = yes
    21 log_plugins_name_at_load = no
    22 cgi_path                 = /cgi-bin:/scripts
    23 port_range               = default
    24 optimize_test            = yes
    25 checks_read_timeout      = 5
    26 non_simult_ports         = 139, 445
    27 plugins_timeout          = 320
    28 safe_checks              = yes
    29 auto_enable_dependencies = yes
    30 use_mac_addr             = no
    31 plugin_upload            = no
    32 plugin_upload_suffixes   = .nasl, .inc
    33 admin_user               = root
    34 language                 = english
    35 slice_network_addresses  = no
    36 #pem_password            = password
    37 #force_pubkey_auth       = yes

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