How it works...

User management allows the administrator to create new users and manage their own account. This allows for the segregation of various scans to be performed, instead of having to use one single account to perform all of the scans. This is because Nessus also allows simultaneous login. One account with scans of different users makes it difficult for a user to identify his or her scan at a given point in time, even though they can be moved into different folders.

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