NAME

gsad - Greenbone Security Assistant of the Greenbone Vulnerability Management

SYNOPSIS

gsad OPTIONS

DESCRIPTION

Together, OpenVAS Scanner (openvassd(8)) and Greenbone Vulnerability Manager daemon (gvmd(8)) provide the core functionality of the Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM), with OpenVAS Scanner handling the actual scan process and Greenbone Vulnerability Manager daemon adding various management functionalities to handle and organise scan results.

The Greenbone Security Assistant Daemon (gsad) is a web application that connects to the Greenbone Vulnerability 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.

--munix-socket=FILE

Path to Manager unix socket.

-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-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.

--drop-privileges=user

Drop privileges to <user>.

--vendor-version=string

Use string as version in interface.

--secure-cookie

Use a secure cookie (implied when using HTTPS).

--timeout=minutes

Minutes of user idle time before session expires. Defaults to 15 minutes.

--client-watch-interval=number

Check if client connection was closed every <number> seconds. 0 to disable. Defaults to 1.

--debug-tls=number

Enable TLS debugging at level.

--ignore-x-real-ip

Do not use X-Real-IP to determine the client address.

--per-ip-connection-limit=number

Sets the maximum number of connections per ip. Use 0 for unlimited.

--http-cors=CORS

Set Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) allow origin http header.

--user-session-limit=MAX_SESSIONS

Set maximum number of active sessions per user. 0 for unlimited.

-?, --help

Show help.

EXAMPLES

gsad

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

SEE ALSO

openvas(8), gvmd(8), ospd-openvas(8)

MORE INFORMATION

The canonical places where you will find more information about the Greenbone Vulnerability Manager are:

COPYRIGHT

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