Running OpenVAS in My Home Lab — Install, the Three Things That Broke, and the First Scan
I wanted a real vulnerability scanner in the lab — something that port-scans a host, throws a big pile of network vulnerability tests at it, and tells me what to fix by severity. OpenVAS (now Greenbone Community Edition) is the obvious choice, and it ships as a Docker stack. This is the honest write-up: the install, the three separate things that broke, one of which was my own fault, and what the scanner actually found when I pointed it at my own box. Nothing here is polished — I got a couple of things wrong along the way and I’m leaving those in, because that’s where the useful bits are. ...