Re: Running NMAP as a non root user - patch

[Richard Moore <rich () westpoint ltd uk>]

Pablo Fernández wrote:
> I wonder how a chown root nmap; chmod +s nmap; installation would be a
> security risk (given that nmap doesn't have a large vulnerability
> records (that am I aware of)). Any comments on this?

I wouldn't want to bet on a system booting if you told nmap
to write its log file to /etc/inittab! ;-)

Rich.
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Richard Moore, Principal Software Engineer,
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