Exercise 3, Chapter 8 – Playing with dpkg-deb
In this exercise, we want to install Nessus. Nessus is not a simple apt-get installation. It is a process:
- Downloading the .deb file from Nessus
- Install .deb with dpkg
- Register Nessus and get an activation code by email
- Generate a challenge code with nessuscli in Kali
- Submit the challenge and activation to get access to plugins
- Download plugins and install them
This is a long process and isn’t simple. Using the skills we demonstrated in this chapter, download and install Nessus and create a package that includes the plugins and installs them, automatically.
- Find, download, install and register the Free Nessus Debian package.
- Instead of programmatically installing the plugins through the Nessus web interface, save the plugins to a local file.
- Slipstream the signatures into the Nessus .deb package so that you will be able to install Nessus (say across multiple computers), without having each computer re-download the signatures.
- Create a new Nessus .deb package that automatically installs the plugins.
