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Re: ncrack config dir patches
From: "Steve 'Ashcrow' Milner" <smilner () redhat com>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:27:12 -0400
On 25/09/09 09:13 -0400, Jay Fink wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org> wrote:Thanks Steve! I'm glad to see more people using Ncrack. But does ncrack-services really need to be in /etc/ rather than the Ncrack data dir? I have the Fedora Nmap package installed (nmap-5.00-1.fc11.x86_64) and it installs nmap-services in /usr/share/nmap. That is consistent with what Ncrack is trying to do with ncrack-services. My Fedora 11 /usr/share contains several hundred application-specific directories like this.Typically shared _data_ goes in ~/share and configurations into ~/etc or $HOME/.*rc. It doesn't make sense to me that ncrack data should go in any ~/etc.
The confusion may be in that ncrack-services is seen as a configuration file and not a data file. If this is a file that shouldn't be modified then I agree it should be in the systems datadir.
Regarding changes like this:directory for real and effective UIDs (POSIX systems only) or location of the Ncrack executable (Win32 only), and then a compiled\-in location such as -/usr/local/share/ncrack +/usr/share/ncrackPerhaps we can try to modify it to work in both cases (e.g. "compiled-in location such as /usr/local/share/ncrack or /usr/share/ncrack") so that Fedora doesn't have to carry an extra patch which might get messed up and require hand merging when we make significant changes to the docs.If there is a configure option would the default stay as is? That would be my preference. thx, j
I believe so. -- kthxbye! Steve 'Ashcrow' Milner Agent of Infosec IRC: ashcrow GnuPG ID: 28DFD4BE"In the heat of conversation I may have said certain things I believe to be untrue. The alleged lie that you might have heard me saying allegedly moments ago ... that's a parasite that lives in my neck." -- Tad Ghostal
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- Re: ncrack config dir patches Fyodor (Sep 25)
- Re: ncrack config dir patches Jay Fink (Sep 25)
- Re: ncrack config dir patches Steve 'Ashcrow' Milner (Sep 25)
- Re: ncrack config dir patches Jay Fink (Sep 25)
- Re: ncrack config dir patches Fyodor (Sep 25)
- Re: ncrack config dir patches Steve 'Ashcrow' Milner (Sep 25)
- Re: ncrack config dir patches Jay Fink (Sep 25)
- Re: ncrack config dir patches Fyodor (Sep 25)