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Permissions

Methods described in this section relate to the permissions API. These methods can be accessed at Nessus.permissions.

class PermissionsAPI(api: restfly.session.APISession)

details(object_type: typing_extensions.Literal[scanner], object_id: int) → List[Dict]

Retrieves the access control list for the specified object

Parameters

• object_type (str) – The type of permissions object

• object_id (int) – The unique id of the object to retrieve

Returns

List of ACL objects.

Return type

List

Example

>>> nessus.permissions.details('scanner', 1)

edit(object_type: typing_extensions.Literal[scanner], object_id: int, acls: List[Dict]) → None

Updates the permissions for the specified object

Parameters

• object_type (str) – The type of object to modify

• object_id (int) – The unique id of the object to modify

• acls (list[dict]) – The list of access control objects to apply

Example

>>> nessus.permissions.edit('scanner', 1, acls=[
...     {
...         'type': 'default',
...         'permissions': 16
...     }, {
...         'type': 'user',
...         'permissions': 64,
...         'name': 'admin',
...         'id': 1,
...         'owner': 1
...     })