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 UsersMy 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.

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