NAME¶

gsad - Greenbone Security Assistant for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS)

SYNOPSIS¶

gsad OPTIONS

DESCRIPTION¶

Together, OpenVAS Scanner (openvassd(8)) and OpenVAS Manager (openvasmd(8)) provide the core functionality of the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS), with OpenVAS Scanner handling the actual scan process and OpenVAS Manager adding various management functionalities to handle and organise scan results.

The Greenbone Security Assistant Daemon (gsad) is a web application that connects to the OpenVAS Manager to provide for a full-featured user interface for vulnerability management.

OPTIONS¶

-f, --foreground

Run in foreground.

--http-only

Serve HTTP only, without SSL.

--listen=ADDRESS

Listen on ADDRESS.

--mlisten=ADDRESS

Manager address.

-p, --port=PORT

Listen on port number PORT.

-m, --mport=PORT

Use manager port number PORT.

-r, --rport=PORT

Redirect HTTP from port number PORT.

--no-redirect

Don't redirect HTTP to HTTPS.

-k, --ssl-private-key=FILE

Use FILE as the private key for HTTPS

-c, --ssl-certificate=FILE

Use FILE as the certificate for HTTPS

--do-chroot

Do chroot and drop privileges.

--gnutls-priorities=PRIORITIES

GnuTLS priorities string.

--dh-params=FILE

Diffie-Hellman parameters file for PFS support. Functional only with Libmicrohttpd 0.9.35 and higher.

--unix-socket=FILE

Listen for HTTP requests on the provided unix socket file.

-v, --verbose

Print progress messages.

-V, --version

Print version.

--http-frame-opts=FRAME-OPTS

X-Frame-Options HTTP header. Defaults to "SAMEORIGIN".

--http-csp=CSP

Content-Security-Policy HTTP header. Defaults to "default-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; img-src 'self' blob:; frame-ancestors 'self'" --http-frame-opts=FRAME-OPTS X-Frame-Options HTTP header. Defaults to ""

--http-csp=CSP

Content-Security-Policy HTTP header. Defaults to "default-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; img-src 'self' blob:; frame-ancestors *"

--http-sts

Enable HTTP Strict-Tranport-Security header.

--http-sts-max-age=max-age

max-age in seconds for HTTP Strict-Tranport-Security header. Defaults to 31536000.

-?, --help

Show help.

EXAMPLES¶

gsad

Start gsad with the default port configuration and listen on port 443 for HTTPS requests.

SEE ALSO¶

openvassd(8), Bopenvasad(8), omp(8), openvasmd(8), gsd(8)

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE OPENVAS PROJECT¶

The canonical places where you will find more information about the OpenVAS project are: http://www.openvas.org/ (Official site) http://wald.intevation.org/projects/openvas/ (Development Platform)

COPYRIGHT¶

The Greenbone Security Assistant is released under the GNU GPL, version 2, or, at your option, any later version.