gsad(8)

✨ NAME ✨

gsad — Greenbone Security Assistant Deamon of the Greenbone Vulnerability Management 💖

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

gsad OPTIONS

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this bestie: OpenVAS Scanner (openvassd(8)) and the Greenbone Vulnerability Manager daemon (gvmd(8)) are like the two main characters of the Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM) universe 💅. They together give you the core functionality — OpenVAS Scanner handles the actual scan process, and the Greenbone Vulnerability Manager daemon adds all the management functionalities so you can handle and organise your scan results. teamwork, fr fr 🫶✨

And then there's the star of this page: the Greenbone Security Assistant Daemon (gsad). It's a web application that connects to the Greenbone Vulnerability Manager to give you a full-featured user interface for vulnerability management. it's giving ✨portal✨ and honestly? obsessed. 👑

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

• -f, --foreground — Run in foreground. no hiding in the background for this one, she's front and center 💅
• --http-only — Serve HTTP only, without SSL. (yes bestie, no padlock, raw vibes only)
• --listen=ADDRESS — Listen on ADDRESS. that's the address she's posting up at 🌸
• --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. she stays on HTTP, no glow-up required 🙈
• -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. ⚠️ (yes, that's the actual version requirement, don't come for me)
• --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. she's chatty and we love that for her 💬
• -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. ⏰ (so if you ghost her for 15 min, you're out, no cap)
• --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.
• --api-only — Run in API-only mode, disabling serving of static content.
• --jwt-requested — Enable JWT-based mode using the token returned in the login response. 🔑
• -?, --help — Show help. (the classic "help me help you" moment 🫶)

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

gsad

Start gsad with the default port configuration and listen on port 443 for HTTPS requests. iconic behavior, honestly 💖

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

openvas(8), gvmd(8), ospd-openvas(8) — the whole friend group, go say hi 🫶

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🧚 MORE INFORMATION 🧚

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

• Community Portal
• Development Platform
• Greenbone Website

(three links, three vibes, go explore bestie ✨)

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💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

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

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k that's the whole page!! one last thing, the footer energy: this is from Greenbone Vulnerability Manag… (yes the truncation is canon, don't blame me 😭), dated September 2019, and it belongs to manual section gsad(8). mwah, go configure something 💅✨🌸