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Re: iflist broken on OSX 10.4.11
From: MadHat Unspecific <madhat () unspecific com>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:55:20 -0600
Fyodor wrote:
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:09:22PM -0600, MadHat Unspecific wrote:oops, sudo... nmap should check for root access before checking so the error does not appear. $ sudo nmap --iflist Password:Hm, I'm not sure why this information should require root access. I can do --iflist as an unprivileged user on my Linux box. Can you try as an unprivileged user with Nmap 4.23RC2 and (if 4.23RC2 also shows the error) 4.20 on the same OS X box and see what happens? That will tell us whether this is a new error or has long existed.
$ ./nmap --iflist Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-11-27 20:54 CST getinterfaces: Failed to open ethernet interface (en1). A possible cause on BSD operating systems is running out of BPF devices (see http://seclists.org/lists/nmap-dev/2006/Jan-Mar/0014.html). QUITTING! $ sudo ./nmap --iflist Password: Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-11-27 20:55 CST ************************INTERFACES************************ DEV (SHORT) IP/MASK TYPE UP MAC lo0 (lo0) 127.0.0.1/8 loopback up en1 (en1) 192.168.1.189/24 ethernet up 00:1E:52:70:E2:65 ... _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
Current thread:
- iflist broken on OSX 10.4.11 Matt Selsky (Nov 27)
- Re: iflist broken on OSX 10.4.11 Lee Heath (Nov 27)
- Re: iflist broken on OSX 10.4.11 MadHat Unspecific (Nov 27)
- Re: iflist broken on OSX 10.4.11 Fyodor (Nov 27)
- Re: iflist broken on OSX 10.4.11 MadHat Unspecific (Nov 27)
- Re: iflist broken on OSX 10.4.11 Matt Selsky (Nov 27)
- Re: iflist broken on OSX 10.4.11 MadHat Unspecific (Nov 27)
- Re: iflist broken on OSX 10.4.11 Lee Heath (Nov 27)