OpenVAS: Confusion With 3rd Party Repos
Hi,
I’m currently experimenting with OpenVAS, the vulnerability scanner which was forked from Nessus.
I’m reading through various HOWTOs and tutorials, and it seems like I’m stuck very early in my fiddling process.
All the CentOS-based tutorials I’ve found mention a third-party Atomic repo, and here’s how the installation usually begins.
# wget -q -O – http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic | sh
Yet on my servers I have EPEL configured for my third-party needs, and OpenVAS already seems available through EPEL.
# yum search openvas
… openvas-cli.x86_64
openvas-gsa.x86_64
openvas-libraries.x86_64
openvas-libraries-devel.x86_64
openvas-libraries-doc.x86_64
openvas-manager.x86_64
openvas-scanner.x86_64
The documentation I’ve found only mentions a single ‘openvas’ package, and I’m supposed to run ‘openvas-setup’ after installation. Now I tried to install the core packages found above, but there’s no ‘openvas-setup’.
Any suggestions?
Niki Kovacs
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3 thoughts on - OpenVAS: Confusion With 3rd Party Repos
Le 18/07/2017 à 17:42, Nicolas Kovacs a écrit :
It looks like there’s a significant amount of bad OpenVAS tutorials online, including one linked to by OpenVAS itself. The usual “you have to disable your firewall and disable SELinux” stuff.
I’d be grateful for some solid and reliable information about OpenVAS.
Cheers,
Niki
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I gave up with the repo method and ended up building it from source. It worked out a lot easier.
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Le 24/07/2017 à 02:14, Phil Manuel a écrit :
I dug into it, and it works fine now (except PDF report generation, but I don’t really need that). I wrote a detailed blog article about it.
https://blog.microlinux.fr/openvas-CentOS-epel/
Cheers,
Niki
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