Mailing List Archive: Software enumeration via SSH

Richard Puerto wrote:
> I am conducting full scans (Enabled all plugins in safe mode) using Linux
> Etch 4.0 machines and Nessus 3 server and client for linux. If I have a
> machine scan itself, it seems to use all of the plugins and will report the
> software/packages installed. If I have one scaning machine remotely scan
> another Linux machine, it will not use all of the plugins, and will not
> report on the software/packages installed.
>
> Anyone have any idea why?
>
>

There could be many reasons:

- are you providing credentials for the remote scanner to log into the other machines?

- if you are providing credentials, do you see a login attempt?

- are the target machines firewalled?

Ron Gula
Tenable Network Security

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