Specifications

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After clicking “Save”, three buttons appear on the Advanced Settings:
After the changes are made, you can Save or Discard them. Note that Save will reload the configuration with the new
changes.
For details on each of the configuration options, consult the “Configure the Nessus Daemon (Advanced Users)” section of
this document.
Note that there are two optional advanced preferences that are not default, but can be added to enhance the
security of the Nessus installation:
 Setting “xmlrpc_hide_version” to “yes” in the preferences prevents an unauthenticated user from
getting the version of the Nessus engine, but will still return the UI and webserver versions.
 Setting “user_max_login_attempt” to a numeric value (i.e., “3”) will lock a given account after n
invalid login attempts. Unlocking the user requires the admin to edit the user.