OpenVAS says 'login failed'

This solution was found at

http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/openvas-discuss/2008-August/000732.html



"openvas-adduser" probably created the user directory in a different location (e.g. /usr/local/var/lib/openvas/) than the server is looking for it. It needs to moved to /var/lib/openvas.