docs(connectors): document GMP over SSH for OpenVAS / Greenbone - #15754
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Greenbone deprecated TLS/GMP - it was the default only through GOS 3.1 - in favour of GMP over SSH from GOS 4 on, and a current Greenbone commonly exposes no TLS listener at all. The section described only the TLS transport, which left the reader with no way to connect a modern instance. Splits the transport choice out, says which version needs which, and documents the SSH setup: either arrangement found in the field (an appliance-style forced-command account, or an ordinary account permitted to forward to gvmd's unix socket) works and is detected automatically. Calls out that the GMP user is still required on SSH - SSH only carries the connection, GMP authenticates over it - and that the host key fingerprint field takes all of a server's fingerprints, since there is no telling which key type gets negotiated. The TLS instructions stay, with the caveat that the Community Edition compose stack has no TLS listener and needs something in front of the socket. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What
Documents the GMP over SSH transport in the OpenVAS / Greenbone connector reference, and splits the transport choice out from the rest of the setup.
Why
Greenbone carries GMP two ways, and the reference only described the older one:
A current Greenbone commonly exposes no TLS listener at all — the Community Edition compose stack fronts
gvmdwith a unix socket and nothing on 9390 — so a reader following the existing instructions had no way to connect a modern instance.What the section now says
gvmd(whatgvm-toolsexpects, default account namegmp), or an ordinary account permitted to forward to gvmd's unix socket.ssh-keyscan <host> | ssh-keygen -lf -output pastes as-is.socatTLS bridge) for that transport to be reachable.Notes for review
Docs-only — one file, no code and no screenshots. The connector fields described here (
Transport, theSSH *fields,gvmd Socket Path) ship in an upcoming connectors release, so you may want to land this alongside it rather than ahead of it.