while trying to run some of OpenVAS CLI commands, i'm getting Failed Authentication error message. OpenVAS is installed on CentOS machine. I tried with the user account credentials but still getting the same error message.Is there any way to over come this problem?
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Ok now I tried and found the solution. For every OpenVAS command we should provide the username and password.
EX:
openvas-cli -u xxxx -w xxxxxxx -g
openvas-cli -u xxxx -w xxxxxxx -g

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failed to authenticate means password policy file is not present in openvas. Hence you need rebuild openvas "openvasmd --rebuild" and create certificate as well "openvas-mkcert"

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