Introduction

Nessus is a very well known security scanner. In this tutorial we are going to learn how to restart the password. We are going to show how to do it for Linux (like Kali) and for OSX also.

Step 1: Locate the nessuscli

If at your terminal you get a command not found: nessuscli, first we need to find were it was installed.

find / -name "nessuscli"

The default path for OSX was /Library/Nessus/run/sbin/nessuscli.

Step 2: Show available users

cd /Library/Nessus/run/sbin
sudo ./nessuscli lsuser

In my case the output of lsuser was:

root

Step 3: Reset the password

sudo ./nessuscli chpasswd root

Now you can login to nessus with the new password at https://localhost:8834