The config options for greenbone security assistant are kept in /etc/default/greenbone-security-assistant. Be default, the listening address for greenbone-security-assistant is 127.0.0.1 which means you can't connect to GSA from a remote web browser. The way to fix this is to change the GSA_ADDRESS parameter in /etc/default/greenbone-security-assistant to 0.0.0.0 although even after changing it, and restarting the greenbone-security-assistant service, the service still listens only on 127.0.0.1. I have even tried overriding /etc/init.d/greenbone-security-assistant and the gsad executable still only listens on 127.0.0.1. The only way I have found to correctly override the default listening address is to manually start gsad like this:"nohup /usr/sbin/gsad --foreground --listen=0.0.0.0 --port=9392 --mlisten=127.0.0.1 --mport=9390 &". What I can't figure out is why isn't /etc/defaults/greenbone-security-assistant being read correctly and why doesn't changing the default options in /etc/init.d/greenbone-security-assistant work for overriding the default address either. Clearly I am missing something.
Originally Posted by SimonW
