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Re: Running NMAP as a non root user - patch
From: Richard Moore <rich () westpoint ltd uk>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 11:42:13 +0100
Pablo Fernández wrote:
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?
I wouldn't want to bet on a system booting if you told nmap to write its log file to /etc/inittab! ;-) Rich. -- Richard Moore, Principal Software Engineer, Westpoint Ltd, Albion Wharf, 19 Albion Street, Manchester, M1 5LN, England Tel: +44 161 237 1028 Fax: +44 161 237 1031 _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev
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- Running NMAP as a non root user - patch Uri Gilad (May 16)
- Re: Running NMAP as a non root user - patch Pablo Fernández (May 16)
- Re: Running NMAP as a non root user - patch uzy (May 16)
- Re: Running NMAP as a non root user - patch Richard Moore (May 16)
- Re: Running NMAP as a non root user - patch Felix Gröbert (May 16)
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- Re: Running NMAP as a non root user - patch Emmanuel Goldstein (May 16)
- Re: Running NMAP as a non root user - patch Fyodor (May 16)
- Re: Running NMAP as a non root user - patch Pablo Fernández (May 16)
- Re: Running NMAP as a non root user - patch Pablo Fernández (May 16)
- Re: Running NMAP as a non root user - patch (capabilities) Martin Mačok (May 17)
- Re: Running NMAP as a non root user - patch (capabilities) Richard Moore (May 17)
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