A home-use code can be retrieved from Tenable’s website for the low low cost of your email address and completely legit first and last name. Continuing on you will be prompted to enter an Activation Code.

Make sure you either memorize this username and password combo on the spot or enter it into your favorite encrypted password protected file of passwords as you will need it later to log in to Nessus on your local machine.ĥ.

Once you have started the Nessus Server (Step 3) browse out to (accepting the risk for the self-signed cert) hit ‘Get Started’ and you will be prompted to create a Login ID. In the Ease of Use section of this article you will learn how to streamline this manual process.Ĥ. You will need to enter this command each time you reboot Kali which can get tedious and for the forgetful amongst us just plan annoying. To do so enter /etc/init.d/nessusd start. Once the install is complete you will need to start Nessus back-end server. From there execute the dpkg -i Nessus-5.2.3-debian6_b command to start the Nessus install (swapping in the name of your downloaded file as needed).ģ. Open terminal and change directory to the location you downloaded Nessus to, in my case the Downloads directory. First things first, download Nessus from: Select Linux -> Debian 6.0 (32-bit) or (64-bit) based on the architecture version of your Kali install.Ģ. Below is our step by step install, setup and basic usage guide for Nessus on Kali 1.0.ġ. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t install it! Thankfully Tenable offers a free home use license for uh, home use only. One of the best tools for host vulnerability analysis is Nessus and sadly because of its licensing structure is not included in the Kali Linux distro.

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