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OpenVAS (Open Vulnerability Assessment System) is Article description::security scanning software used identify and detect network accessible vulnerabilities. It is used by both offensive and defensive security experts to determine attack surfaces. OpenVAS is a fork of Nessus, the popular corporate security scanner maintained by Tenable.

Both OpenVAS and Nessus were originally built from the nmap port scanner.

Emerge
The is a meta-package. It depends upon the command-line interface, libraries, manager, scanner, and tools. Do not be surprised if the dependency list is a little long:

Additional software
Additional support for extra checks gained from emerging the following software:

Configuration
The following steps can be checked at any point by running the utility.

Generate an SSL certificate
Before OpenVAS can be started, an SSL certificate must be generated:

Download vulnerability list
Download the vulnerability list with the following command:

Create a user
Users will not be able to login until accounts have been created for them. Pretending a user by the name of Larry would like to create an account:

Unless you want a large GUID for a password, be sure to change it:

Users can be listed with the following command:

Service not starting
Check the log files located at.