[Openvas-discuss] Using nikto NASL

[Brandon Perry]

The error says it could not execute it, which doesn't always mean it
couldn't find it. Perhaps chmod +x your nikto.pl

2011/12/8 Juan José Pavlik Salles <jjpavlik at gmail.com>:
> Hi! i'm trying to use nikto nasl in openvas 4. The first problem was that
> the nikto version in the ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS repos is older than what openvas
> needs, so i downloaded the latest one, and added its directory to my PATH
> variable
>
> root at openvas:~/tools/pruebas# echo $PATH
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/root/tools/pruebas/nikto-2.1.4
>
> But my openvas reports says:
>
> Nikto could not be found in your system path.
> OpenVAS was unable to execute Nikto and to perform the scan you
> requested.
> Please make sure that Nikto is installed and that nikto.pl or nikto is
> available in the PATH variable defined for your environment.
>
> I've read nikto.nasl (the plugin), and it looks for nikto or nikto.pl
> executable files, i have nikto.pl file, but it seems openvas can't see it.
> Any clue???
>
> --
> Pavlik Juan José
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