Using sudo as root

[haZard0us <hazard0us.pt () gmail com>]

Hello all,

I was happily following some examples on the book Metasploit: The 
Penetration Tester's Guide - in which HD Moore gives us a nice preface 
:) - and i found a little annoying thing.

In the command: nmap -sT -A --script=smb-check-vulns -P0 192.168.33.130

It gives the following output:

Starting Nmap ---SNIP---
Warning: Traceroute does not support idle or connect scan, disabling...
QUITTING!!!!

But if i run it again using the sudo prefix:

sudo nmap -sT -A --script=smb-check-vulns -P0 192.168.33.130

It works.

My question is... if i'm currently the root user, why do i have to use sudo?

Maybe not a framework issue, but i guess that's quite obvious why i ask 
it here :)

Sincere regards,
-haZ
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