How to manage Nessus user accounts

Nessus is a multiuser environment, where one admin user can create multiple user accounts and configure global settings, and allow them to configure local policy settings. To be able to use user management, Nessus provides two menu options: My Account and Users.  My Account is used to manage your own account and the Users tab is used for the admin to manage/create/delete a user. In this recipe, we will see various components of these settings and how one can one use these to manage the Nessus users.

Getting ready

This section is the same as the Getting ready section of the How to manage Nessus policies recipe.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps:

1. Open the Nessus Web Client.
2. Log in to the Nessus client with the user that you created during installation.

3. Navigate to the My Account screen by clicking on the home screen under the ACCOUNTS section, which has two sub-options, Account Settings and API Keys:

The settings on this page can be used to change the password...