Re: The difficulty of running Nmap with privileges on Mac OS X

[bensonk () acm wwu edu]

> 3. Use Authorization Services to run just the Nmap commands as root. The
> user would authenticate once per session. This is really the ideal
> solution, because it limits the amount of code that runs privileged, and
> Zenmap runs as a real user, with files in their own home directory.
> Unfortunately, the function AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges doesn't
> give us much information about the child process, not even a PID. This
> means that we can't kill the Nmap process when a scan tab is closed.
> However, this may not be such a huge limitation.

I like this option by far the best.  I think that shipping setuid
binaries is a bad idea, generally speaking, and I think that not killing
the nmap process when a tab is closed is better than shipping a setuid
binary.  What about some wrapper script that's not setuid, but that you
execute with AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges?  It could exec nmap and
output the pid to stdout or something.  Just a thought.  

Benson

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