Re: Nmap/Zenmap 4.62-test8 packages for Mac OS X

[bensonk () acm wwu edu]

It works great for me.  One hitch I had was that I'm running on HFS+
with case-sensitivity enabled.  I had to rename two of the files in the
Zenmap.app bundle to their lowercase versions to get everything to work.
The files I had to rename were:
Zenmap.app/Contents/MacOS/Zenmap.bin to zenmap.bin
Zenmap.app/Contents/MacOS/zenmap-wrapper.py to zenmap_wrapper.py

After I did that, everything works like a charm, including running it as
a normal application.  OS X doesn't complain that it's not universal
like it used to.  Excellent work, David!  Thank you.  

http://acm.wwu.edu/~bensonk/zenmap_osx_test8.png

Benson

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:31:49AM -0600, David Fifield wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have prepared the latest testing package of Nmap and Zenmap for
> Mac OS X.
>
> http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-4.62-test8.dmg (19.6 MB)
>
> This release prompts for a password to enable running the application as
> root. We had a discussion about different ways to do this at
>
> http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2008/q2/0353.html
>
> The method I chose was method 1 from that thread, to just run the entire
> application as root. This is in line with what happens on other
> platforms. It requires no platform-specific changes to Zenmap itself,
> and so will allow an official release to happen sooner. I was mistaken
> before; this method still keeps files in the normal user's home
> directory, but if creatd in privileged more they will be owned by root.
> The method of privileged execution may change in the future, but I have
> learned that Authorization Services was not designed for this kind of
> use.
>
> As an added bonus, the authorization wrapper is a compiled executable,
> so it convinces the operating system that the application really is
> universal. This may fix the problem Benson reported of not being able to
> run the application on a PowerPC computer running Mac OS X 10.5.
>
> David Fifield
>
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