Re: [NSE] Dropbox LanSync host collection

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:54:37AM -0600, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
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> > On 12/14/2010 11:37 AM, David Fifield wrote:
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> > Recall we all ready have the separate arg "newtargets" for scripts adding
> > targets to Nmap's scanning queue.  Maybe for consistency we could add a
> > "broadcast" arg to allow scripts like this to run?  I don't remember this
> > being brought up before, but I could have missed it.
> > Otherwise, only running them when called by name sounds like a good enough
> > alternative.
>
> Good points.  I like the idea of modifying the scripts so they only
> run if they are called by name (e.g. the same rule as we use for the
> verbosity bump) or if a special NSE argument is set (whether that be
> "broadcast" or something else).

We have a pretty flexible script "choosing" mechanism now that we have
the boolean operators for categories. Shouldn't we be adding more
categories? I mean, similar to how the "all" category is a
pseudo-category, we could add others such as "quick" which would
translate to: "safe and not broadcast and not newtarget" or something
like that. Or maybe make a legitimate "quick" category?

Seems there are mechanisms in place to make this easy but we are
forgetting about them...

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- Patrick Donnelly
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