Mailing List Archive: How to send an argument to a NASL plugin

How to send an argument to a NASL plugin

Mar 18, 2005, 4:23 AM

Post #1 of 2 (281 views)

Hi,

How do I send a value to the NASL plugin I want to execute as an argument either from the command-line or the Nessus client?
for example if I want to specify the time my DOS attack should run from the front end.

thanks,
aks

Re: How to send an argument to a NASL plugin [ In reply to ]

theall at tenablesecurity

Mar 21, 2005, 9:00 AM

Post #2 of 2 (278 views)

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On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 04:53:24PM +0530, Akshat Choudhary
wrote:

> How do I send a value to the NASL plugin I want to execute
> as an argument either from the command-line

You can't.

> or the Nessus
> client?

You could declare a preference using script_add_preference()
in the script's description block and then, in the plugin
itself, access it using script_get_preference().

George

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