Re: Running NMAP as a non root user - patch (capabilities)

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

Martin Mačok wrote:
> Anyway, we could check if we have required capabilities if we are not
> root. This is the way we do it (while using custom kernel module that
> gives those capabilities to specified uids/gids):
>
> http://Xtrmntr.org/ORBman/tmp/nmap-3.51-noroot_autocap.patch
> (applies to 3.81 too)

Wouldn't this need a new configure check too? not all systems will
have the sys/capability.h header. eg. My suse 9.0 machines have it
but an older debian box doesn't.

Rich.
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