The possibilities are so wide that I refer to the Nessus documentation. The advanced section gives us the possibility to modify the settings of our scans, user interface, logging and performance. SettingsĪt the settings tab you can view your license and how many scans are still available in the limited license, the expire date and so on. The GUIĪfter all is finished we can access the Nessus-GUI.įirst look, Nessus doesent look special, but lets figure out what makes it special. Nessus will now install all needed plugins and make it ready to start.

On the first start, we have to set up our Nessus instance, select Nessus Essentials and then continue, skip the next page will bring us to the registration page where we insert the activation code that we’ve got from the Nessus Website. To access Nessus-GUI open your browser and connect to your local-ip with the port 8834.

That is how you install nessus in kali linux.Sudo systemctl start rvice Copy Setup Nessus Then we need to wait some more time while the program initializes.Īfter the initialization is over, you will see the Nessus scan page as below.Ĭongrats, you have successfully installed Nessus in Kali Linux. After entering activation code, click on Continue.Īfter activation is completed, it will download the nessus packages required. You can get the activation code from here. Its time to enter the activation code for Nessus. Type the username and password you want to set up for the account. Then you will get a welcome screen of nessus as shown below. You will get a popup to confirm the security exception. Click on “I understand the risks” option. You will see the below warning that the connection is untrusted. Open a browser and type “ to see the web interface of nessus. Then type command “ service nessusd start” to start the service. Then type the command “ dpkg -i package name” as shown below. You can see the debian package of Nessus. Open a terminal, navigate to the “Downloads” folder and type “ ls“. It should normally be in the Downloads directory in root directory. Go to the directory into which the package has been downloaded. First download the nessus Debian package from the website ( here ). This guide works for all versions of Kali Linux. Let us see how to install Nessus in Kali Linux. My first disappointment with Kali is that it excluded nessus from its vulnerability scanning tools.

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