Re: Running NMAP as a non root user - patch (capabilities)

[Martin Mačok <martin.macok () underground cz>]

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:54:22AM -0700, Fyodor wrote:

>   Added new --privileged command-line option and NMAP_PRIVILEGED
>   environmental variable.  Either of these tell Nmap to assume that
>   the user has full privileges to execute raw packet scans, OS
>   detection and the like.

Anyway, we could check if we have required capabilities if we are not
root. This is the way we do it (while using custom kernel module that
gives those capabilities to specified uids/gids):

http://Xtrmntr.org/ORBman/tmp/nmap-3.51-noroot_autocap.patch
(applies to 3.81 too)

Martin Mačok
ICT Security Consultant


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