Re: Nmap ignores key presses if run by sudo

[Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon () gmail com>]

Hi Shinnok,

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 01:26 +0300, Shinnok wrote:
> It seems that running nmap with sudo from an unprivileged user makes
> Nmap ignore(or not catch at all)terminal keyboard input. However, if run
> by the current user(root also with sudo su) then key presses work as
> expected, for e.g. return for scan status or d for increasing debug
> verbosity.
>
> I'm running latest SVN nmap in Debian Squeeze. It seems that the version
> in Debian's repo's, 5.00, behaves the same way.
>
> Is this a bug case or me remembering Nmap key presses to be working with
> sudo a case of bad memory bits with my chip?

Seems like sudo uses use_pty and manually handles all keypresses.  Maybe
it is a bug of sudo, maybe of nmap, dunno :)  Just disable use_pty and
all log_* options to disable pty allocation.

Thanks,

-- 
Vasiliy Kulikov
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