OpenVAS can not log in

[daveftm]

Hi,

I'm brand new to Kali -and an intermediate Linux user. I'm interested in Kali because of the OpenVAS element, but I'm really struggling with getting OpenVAS working properly. I *think* it's installed properly (even managed to install a couple of packages it was complaining about) but no matter what I do, I can't get it to hold any credentials to run a scan with. The console simply refuses to save them, and the web front end hangs, then complains about a 500 internal server error.

Has anyone got OpenVAS working properly with Kali?


Great forum, and great distro by the way. Pleased to be here!

[mime]

I can't get it to hold any credentials to run a scan with. The console simply refuses to save them, and the web front end hangs, then complains about a 500 internal server error.

GPG is used for credentials generation. This needs some entropy. Make some "noise" during credentials creation or install 'http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/'

[vonhess]

had some problems 2 make sure that the ports needed are open and not blokked in the firewall
this is wath i did
#delete oldfiles if you havving problems
apt-get remove --purge greenbone-security-assistant libopenvas6 openvas-administrator openvas-manager openvas-cli openvas-scanner
#in case of y problems manually remove the var/lib/openvas folder 2

#install all
apt-get install openvas openvas-administrator openvas-administrator-dbg openvas-cli openvas-cli-dbg openvas-manager openvas-manager-dbg openvas-scanner openvas-scanner-dbg libopenvas6 libopenvas6-dbg kali-linux kali-linux-full

#openvan check told me to isntall this 2
apt-get install alien nsis rpm

#make a admin user
test -e /var/lib/openvas/users/admin || openvasad -c add_user -n admin -r Admin