Openvas 9 on Ubuntu 16.04 Setup
After a number of hours of fidling / tweaking i have finally gotten openvas 9 running smoothly including SSH authentication against secure ciphers. The secure cipher part threw me a bit. Below is a guide to help those of you struggling as I did. Basic Installation Install Ubuntu 16.04LTS Make sure you update your newly installed system with the latest patches - security updates. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Openvas9 is available as a package for Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mrazavi/openvas sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install openvas9 Follow the prompts and answer yes for redis-server install. Once installed, run updates on the NVT to ensure you have the latest vulnerability tests. sudo greenbone-nvt-sync sudo greenbone-scapdata-sync sudo greenbone-certdata-sync The commands above may take a few minutes to run. Once c...