Users (Tenable Nessus Manager)

Required user role when using Tenable Nessus Manager: Administrator or System Administrator

Note: The Users page is only available in Tenable Nessus Manager. All users in Tenable Nessus Professional, Tenable Nessus Expert, and Tenable Nessus Essentials have System Administrator permissions.

The Users page shows a table of all Tenable Nessus Manager user accounts. This documentation refers to that table as the users table. Each row of the users table includes the username, the date of the last login, and the role assigned to the account.

User accounts are assigned roles that dictate the level of access a user has in Tenable Nessus Manager. You can disable or change the role of a user account at any time. The following table describes the roles that you can assign to users:

Name

Description

Basic

Basic user can read scan results.

Standard

Standard users can create scans and policies.

A scan created by a Standard user cannot be edited by other Standard users unless they are given editing permissions from the scan creator.

Administrator

Administrators have the same privileges as Standard users, but can also manage users, user groups, and scanners and view scans that are shared by other users.

System Administrator

System Administrators have the same privileges as Administrators, but can also manage and modify system configuration settings.

Disabled

Disabled user accounts cannot be used to log in to Tenable Nessus.

Use the following procedures to manage user accounts:

  1. In the top navigation bar, click Settings.

    The About page appears.

  2. In the left navigation bar, click Users.

    The Users page appears.

  3. In the upper right corner, click the New User button.

    The Account Settings tab appears.

  4. Type in the settings as necessary, and select a role for the user.

    Note: You cannot modify a username after you save the account.

  5. Click Save.

    Tenable Nessus saves the user account.

  1. In the top navigation bar, click Settings.

    The About page appears.

  2. In the left navigation bar, click Users.

    The Users page appears.

  3. In the users table, click the user whose account you want to modify.

    The <Username> page appears, where <Username> is the name of the selected user.

  4. Modify the user's name, email, role, or password as needed.

    Note: You cannot modify a username after you create the account.

    Note: Passwords cannot contain Unicode characters.

  5. Click Save.

    Tenable Nessus saves your account settings.

  1. In Tenable Nessus, in the top navigation bar, click Settings.

    The About page appears.

  2. In the left navigation bar, click Users.

    The Users page appears.

  3. In the users table, in the row for the user that you want to delete, click the button.

    A dialog box appears, confirming your selection to delete the user.

  4. Click Delete.

    Tenable Nessus deletes the user.

In Tenable Nessus Manager, you can transfer a user's data to a system administrator. When you transfer user data, you transfer ownership of all policies, scans, scan results, and plugin rules to a system administrator account. Transferring user data is useful if you need to remove a user account but do not want to lose their associated data in Tenable Nessus.

To transfer user data:

  1. Log in to Tenable Nessus with the system administrator account to which you want to transfer user data.

  2. In the top navigation bar, click Settings.

    The About page appears.

  3. In the left navigation bar, under Accounts, click Users.

    The Users page appears and shows the users table.

  4. In the users table, select the check box for each user whose data you want to transfer to your account.

  5. In the upper-right corner, click Transfer Data.

    A warning window appears.

    Note: Once you transfer user data, you cannot undo the action.

  6. To transfer the data, click Transfer.

    Tenable Nessus transfers ownership of the selected user's policies, scans, scan results, and plugin rules to the administrator account.