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NESSUS-UPDATE-PLUGINS(8)	 User Manuals	      NESSUS-UPDATE-PLUGINS(8)

NAME
       nessus-update-plugins  -	 updates  the Nessus security checks automati‐
       cally

SYNOPSIS
       nessus-update-plugins [-v] [-r <pluginname>] [-h] [-i <pluginname>]

DESCRIPTION
       The Nessus Security Scanner performs several security checks,  each  of
       them  being  coded as an external plugin coded in NASL. As new security
       holes are published every day, new plugins appear on  the  Nessus  web-
       site  (www.nessus.org),	and having an up-to-date nessusd server can be
       difficult and time consuming.
       The script nessus-update-plugins will fetch  all	 the  newest  security
       checks  for  you, install them at the proper location, and restart nes‐
       susd(8) so that it take them into account.
       nessus-update-plugins uses lynx(1), tar(1) and gzip(1) to do its job.

OPTION
       -v     Will make nessus-update-plugins display the name	of  the	 newly
	      installed plugins.

       -r <pluginname>

	      Make nessus-update-plugins display the source code of the plugin
	      <pluginname>

       -i <pluginname>

	      Only install the plugin pluginname

       -h     Show the help summary

PROXIES
       If you are behind a web proxy, then read the  manual  page  of  nessus-
       fetch to configure nessus-fetch with a proper proxy support.

SECURITY NOTES
       nessus-update-plugins  uses  lynx(1) to retrieve the archive of the new
       plugins, at http://www.nessus.org/nasl/all-2.0.tar.gz.  The scripts are
       not  signed  so	a  cracker  may	 poison your DNS server and force this
       script to retrieve scripts on another web server, and then  force  your
       nessusd	to  execute nasl scripts that do something else.  Even if this
       can not do much harm (see the NASL reference guide for more information
       on that subject) you should be extra careful regarding this.

       So use this script with caution

SEE ALSO
       lynx(1), gzip(1), tar(1)
       nessus(1), nessusd(8), nessus-adduser(8)

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE NESSUS PROJECT
       The  canonical  places  where  you will find more information about the
       Nessus project are :
	    http://www.nessus.org (Official site)
	    http://cvs.nessus.org (Developers site)

AUTHOR
       Renaud  Deraison	 <deraison@cvs.nessus.org>.  This  script   has	  been
       released under the GPL

The Nessus Project		   May 2000	      NESSUS-UPDATE-PLUGINS(8)

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