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Re: Running NMAP as a non root user - patch

From: Pablo Fernández <newsclient () teamq info>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 12:08:09 +0200

I wonder how a chown root nmap; chmod +s nmap; installation would be a
security risk (given that nmap doesn't have a large vulnerability
records (that am I aware of)). Any comments on this?

Best regards.



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Running NMAP as a non root user - patch Uri Gilad (May 16)
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- Re: Running NMAP as a non root user - patch Fyodor (May 16)
  - Re: Running NMAP as a non root user - patch (capabilities) Martin Mačok (May 17)
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