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Re: GSoC idea
From: kirubakaran S <kirubakaran1989 () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 09:44:17 +0530
Hi David, Thanks for throwing light on issues related to my idea. On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:53 AM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>wrote:
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:46:20PM +0530, kirubakaran S wrote:This is for Gsoc. I have an idea of developing a feature for nmap.But I have only rough idea about its implementation.Normally scripts are executed only as command line commands with arguments supplied corresponding to the script run. As the number of scripts are increasing due to large user community it is very hard to remember all the scripts and its arguments for a naive user or else he/she has to refer NSEdoc for its arguments. I suggest adding a feature to zenmap that provides neat interface for selecting a script and providing arguments , with default arguments are already filled up in boxes in interface. In addition we can add several functionality like showing alert message when the user runs intrusive,not safe category etc.. scripts.This is a highly desired feature and is one of the things I'm most excited about for this summer. A proposal for script selection in Zenmap is very welcome. To improve your chances of being selected, you should include in your proposal a graphic that shows what you want the interface to look like. You should give a high-level description of how you plan to implement it; for example, how will you extract script arguments from scripts? Simple parsing of the script source files is one way; loading the scripts in a Lua interpreter is another. Adding an option to Nmap to extract the information and then parsing it from Zenmap is a third.if possible the script results can also be aggregated in to Zenmap topology and hosts viewer. We can also add a search feature in Zenmap that searches the script based on the keywords provided by user and description in each script.This is a good idea too. I estimate that it is a lot easier than the script selection interface. It is true that Zenmap doesn't even parse script results from the XML file. It should do so, and find a place to display them. The search and filter functions should be able to examine script results. David Fifield
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- GSoC idea kirubakaran S (Mar 26)
- Re: GSoC idea David Fifield (Mar 26)
- Re: GSoC idea kirubakaran S (Mar 26)
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