Re: powerbook with nmap superpowers

[Jonathan Gallant <blackdog.tasha () gmail com>]

> Not to knock ubuntu (I'm really not trying to start a distro flame war), but
Not to worry :) I'm not particularly attached to any distro.

Following on your suggestion I popped in a Knoppix livecd, but I
couldn't compile nmap, so I used the original binary from my ubuntu
system with the same results. However I really hadn't tested anything
new - just the same binary compiled with the same gcc compiler running
on knoppix.

Nmap on windows worked great, and I thought perhaps ubuntu is
compiling nmap funny so I converted the nmap-5.0 rpm to deb and
installed that. This gave me the "lots of info" I was looking for and
without the "Access Denied" error.

I'm quite interested in why nmap compiled on ubuntu would give me less
access than nmap compiled/packaged somewhere else. My next test I
suppose is to compile nmap on a completely different system as you
suggested. Would you know what weird things ubuntu does to their
binaries? We are talking about gcc now, and not nmap since I had
compiled nmap myself. Why would an ubuntu gcc compiled nmap give me
less access than some other gcc compiled nmap? Or is it some
dependency library that ubuntu doesn't pull in but the rpm did?

cheers,

J

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