nmap as non-root

[Giacomo Cariello <jwk () bug it>]

There are many examples of unices which don't require root permission to 
send raw packets or access bpf (through the use of special ACLs or with 
kernel patches that allow specific groups to have raw network access), I've 
made some patches to nmap that allow such behaviour. If anyone is 
interested or if there's any will to include them in the distribution, I 
can make them a bit more "user-friendly" and post them.

Furthermore, in my nmap 2.54 beta 25, I found some bugs where the program 
is attempting to get source address: gethostname() && gethostbyname() 
sequence is called, while || operator should be used in place. I'm not sure 
wether this has been fixed in later releases.



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