[Linux Target] Authenticated Scan; SSH Login; non root User

Scanning / scan configuration
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Hello everyone,

if I configure the credentials for the user with elevated permissions in addition to the credentials for SSH access, can I also use a dedicated user for the scan if I allow him to execute commands with root permissions in the sudoers file? To do this, the scanner would have to change the user with sudo su - scan_admin. It is not clear from the manual how it does this.

Thx & Bye CD

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Same, OpenVAS has the concept of a target, where the target elevates its privileges using su - root. However, on cloud servers, there is no root account and no root password. The sysadm user, who is the SSH user and has ALL permissions in the sudoers file, is available. Is it possible to allow the sysadm user to elevate privileges using sudo su -?