Installing Nessus In Backtrack 5

Hey all in this short tutorial i will be telling you all about basics of nessus  how to install nessus in backtrack 5,

What Is Nessus ?

Nessus is a free program released under the GPL. Historically, many in the corporate world have ridiculed such public domain software as being a waste of time, instead choosing "supported" products developed by established companies. Typically these packages cost hundreds or thousands of dollars, and are often purchased using the logic that you get what you pay for. 


Nessus is one of the best vulnerability scanner that is available in two mode for both home and commercial user's, nessus plug in for home user is free of cost. However we have OpenVAS and Nexpose they both are also a good vulnerability scanner.It is a great tool designed to automate the testing and discovery of known security problems. Typically someone, a hacker group, a security company, or a researcher discovers a specific way to violate the security of a software product.

Features Of Nessus

The Nessus vulnerability scanner is the world's most widely-deployed vulnerability and configuration assessment product, with over five million downloads to date. Nessus is rated among the top vulnerability scanners throughout the security industry and is endorsed by professional security organizations, such as, the SANS Institute. Nessus is supported by a world-renowned research team and has an extensive vulnerability knowledge base that is continually updated.

Nessus features include:

    Agentless auditing
    Compliance checks
    Content audits
    Customized reporting
    High-speed vulnerability discovery
    In-depth assessments
    Patch management integration
    Scan policy design & execution

Nessus vulnerability scanners can be distributed throughout an entire enterprise, inside DMZs and across physically separate networks.

Installing Nessus In Backtrack

There are mainly two ways to get Nessus on Backtrack 5  first one is to download a copy of nessus from its official website but the easiest way is to use your terminal which we will be discussing in this tutorial.

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1. Open terminal and type apt-get install nessus.

2. After installing nessus successfully in backtrack 5 now the time comes to add user. For that use command  /opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-adduser and then add user as per as your choice.

3. After adding users we need to registeration. It is most important phase and you need to decided that what you want a home feed or a business feed, for registration go http://www.nessus.org/register/ and after getting registeration code, open terminal and type /opt/nessus/bin/nessus-fetch --register registeration key.


Now for opening nessus type /etc/init.d/nessusd start .


Than at the browser use https://127.0.0.1:8834 to start nessus and you will get screen similar to the below image.

To stop nessus type /etc/init.d/nessusd stop.


So its enough for this tutorial in future tutorials i will be telling you all how to use nessus. 


I hope you all enjoyed this tutorial and if u feel any confusion or problem then you may ask in comments.