A problem met when using gvm-cli in kali

demo · September 15, 2020, 12:46pm

Hi, I follow the official manual to learn to use gvm-cli, but some problems occured as follows.

It show me error information like gvm.errors.GvmError：Remote closed the connection. I’m little confused. The ssh service is running.

What does the error information mean? How can I deal with it ?

refer to document https://docs.greenbone.net/GSM-Manual/gos-6/en/gmp.html
platform: kali 2020
openvas version: gvm 11

bricks · September 15, 2020, 2:12pm

Hi,

our docs only fit for our GSM products in this case. The SSH connection needs some special setup which is not available on Kali.

demo · September 15, 2020, 2:50pm

Sorry, I couldn’t understand what you mean. I have successfully start ssh service on kali. As you have said, can I use gvm-cli tool on kali? or do I have to use some kinds of sepcial connection type(like tls, socket)?

bricks · September 15, 2020, 3:59pm

Of course you can use gvm-tools on Kali Linux. The unix domain socket connection will always work. But you have to adjust the setup to be able to use TLS or SSH connections. Running the SSH server isn’t enough.

demo · September 16, 2020, 2:36am

Could you please tell me how to adjust the setup to be able to use TLS or SSH connections? Because the official manual only shows how to adjust the setup on GOS which Greenbone offers as the official mirror. I haven’t found any guidance to adjust setup for Kali. Thanks!