---
name: "nessus-mkcert"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "nessusd"
version: "2.2.10-3"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/nessus-mkcert"
---

# nessus-mkcert(8)

Creates a server certificate

## NAME

nessus-mkcert - Creates a server certificate

## SYNOPSIS

**nessus-mkcert** \[ -q \]

## DESCRIPTION

The  **Nessus Security Scanner** protects the communication between the client and the server by using SSL. SSL requires the server to present a certificate to the client, and the client can optionally present a certificate to the server.

This script **nessus-mkcert** creates a certificate authority (if none exists already) and generates the server certificate.

## OPTIONS

*-q* quickly generates a new certificate, without asking any question

## SEE ALSO

[**nessusd**(8)](/nessusd/8.md), [**nessus-mkcert-client**(1)](/nessus-mkcert-client/1.md), **[openssl(1)](/openssl/1.md)**

## MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE NESSUS PROJECT

The canonical places where you will find more information  about the Nessus project are:

http://www.nessus.org/ ⟨⟩ (Official site)\
 http://cvs.nessus.org/ ⟨⟩ (Developers site)

## AUTHOR

**nessus-mkcert** was written by Michel Arboi \<arboi@alussinan.org\> and Renaud Deraison \<deraison@cvs.nessus.org\>