[Openvas-discuss] OpenVAS Vmware appliance

[Patrick Hornung]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:19 AM, Jan-Oliver Wagner <
jan-oliver.wagner at intevation.de> wrote:

> On Samstag, 26. Juli 2008, Patrick Hornung wrote:
> > I'm new to the discussion list, and I'm interested in using OpenVAS to
> > create an entirely GPL vmware appliance for security scanning (which of
> > course I'll supply to the community).  I'm planning on building a web
> > interface to initiate the scans, and I'm wondering if there's a
> command-line
> > interface available for OpenVAS.  I've been looking for a few days and
> I've
> > seen a project called reason a few years back that wwould do this, but
> > nothing currently seems to be available.
> > http://reason.sourceforge.netdoesn't exist.  If someone still has a
> > copy and it's still redistributable,
> > can you email it to me?
>
> I am not 100% sure what you are looking for, but OpenVAS-Client offers
> command line execution even without any GUI.


I've since found that it's actually OpenVAS-Client, which was a bit
unexpected. :-)

I still have the problem related to the bug  that was fixed recently with
regards to the command line client not being able to work without X.  Here's
a link to the discussion:
http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/openvas-discuss/2008-July/000635.html

I'm not having much success with the compiling, so does anyone happen to
have a compiled version of the version that includes that bug fix for
fedora/i686?  If not, that's okay - I'll keep toying with it.


>
> > Also, I created an OpenVAS server on a very bare install of fedora 9 in
> > vmware, but my scans only seem to do port scans and it never makes it to
> the
> > vulnerability scan part.  Is there something obvious that I'm missing?
>
> maybe you have configured openvasd with "nasl-no-signature-checks=no"
> but not configured signatures and/or not configured the OpenVAS NVT feed?
>
>
I was using everything as it came from the rpm available, but I'll certainly
check this out.

Thanks for the tips.  My timeline for a release of the VM is early
September, so I'll definitely keep you informed on how it's going.
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