Hello!
I am completely new to BackBox, but I found it very efficient and essential and I would like to try.
In BackBox 4.4, my first issues were with OpenVAS. In some guides the command openvasad is suggested to add a user, while in BackBox 4.4 there is not such a command. I had to use openvasmd.
What are the differences between them?
In man openvasmd there is SEE ALSO openvasad( 8 ) but neither man openvas nor man 8 openvas did work.
Second issue was with NVT. When OpenVAS service is started, it asks
Do you want to rebuild NVT cache? [Y/n] >
If I say yes, a never-ending process begins, with high CPU occupation (uptime initially showed a load greater than 3 in a 2-cores virtual machine). Maybe it locks somewhere and after some minutes nor the network, neither the hard disk are accessed: only CPU (with a constant load of 1).
After googling a little bit I made sudo openvas-nvt-sync. But after restarting the service, the NVT cache rebuilding behaves as before.
Is there something else I can do or did I make some mistake?
Thank you anyway!
Ed