You do need to install nessusd on the machine you are going to scan, right?
-- Andrew On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, Dan Christensen wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > anybody gotten this to work? if so what did you do? i can't get it to > > login..i added a user (test/test) but it wont let me login. > > I didn't try nessus with potato, but with woody I am having no trouble > logging in. I made the user name for nessus the same as my linux > user name---not sure if that is why it works for me and not for you. > > BUT, I can't get nessus to actually do a scan successfully. When > I click on "Start the scan" I get "COMMUNICATION ERROR 20091: > Received EOF when block was expected". > > I don't know if it is related, but when I start nessusd I get the > warning "open : No such file or directory" and then it stays running > and accepts logins. > > Does anybody know how to fix this? I'm just sent in a bugreport... > > Dan