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Re: Privilege checks in broadcast-* scripts
From: Henri Doreau <henri.doreau () greenbone net>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:44:07 +0100
Hi Patrik, 2012/1/14 Patrik Karlsson <patrik () cqure net>:
While implementing another script today I saw one drawback of having this check in the prerule. I would personally prefer the script to return the error as a script result rather than having to run nmap in verbose/debug mode to find out that it's "silently" failing due to permission issues. What do you think?
well, just my opinion but I think that having the check in the script rule is better. As a user I would find annoying to have "lack of privileges" messages within the script results, that would also end up in XML reports... As a script writer, if a script fails at delivering results one of the first things I would do is to re-run nmap with an higher verbosity level, so I don't find the current situation problematical. I would therefore rather prefer to avoid mixing error messages -that don't bring any information about the target- and actual script results. What do other people think about it? Regards. -- Henri _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
Current thread:
- Privilege checks in broadcast-* scripts Henri Doreau (Jan 13)
- Re: Privilege checks in broadcast-* scripts Patrik Karlsson (Jan 13)
- Re: Privilege checks in broadcast-* scripts Henri Doreau (Jan 13)
- Re: Privilege checks in broadcast-* scripts Henri Doreau (Jan 13)
- Re: Privilege checks in broadcast-* scripts Patrik Karlsson (Jan 13)
- Re: Privilege checks in broadcast-* scripts Henri Doreau (Jan 13)
- Re: Privilege checks in broadcast-* scripts Patrik Karlsson (Jan 14)
- Re: Privilege checks in broadcast-* scripts Henri Doreau (Jan 14)
- Re: Privilege checks in broadcast-* scripts Kris Katterjohn (Jan 14)
- Re: Privilege checks in broadcast-* scripts Patrik Karlsson (Jan 15)
- Re: Privilege checks in broadcast-* scripts Kris Katterjohn (Jan 15)
- Re: Privilege checks in broadcast-* scripts Patrik Karlsson (Jan 15)
- Re: Privilege checks in broadcast-* scripts Kris Katterjohn (Jan 15)
- Re: Privilege checks in broadcast-* scripts Henri Doreau (Jan 13)
- Re: Privilege checks in broadcast-* scripts Henri Doreau (Jan 16)
- Re: Privilege checks in broadcast-* scripts Patrik Karlsson (Jan 13)