Re: Offering some NSE help :)

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 03:12:00PM -0700, stripes wrote:
> I'd like to get involved with NSE and help write scripts :)
>
> I have a background writing NASLs and Snort signatures, although it's
> been a while. I'm currently working on picking up Perl, so I'm looking
> at expanding my security-specific knowledge.
>
> If someone can point me to some places you guys need some work, I'd
> love to help (provided you don't mind the dumb questions as I'm
> learning).

Hi Anne,

There's a tiny little task you could help with. The dayTime.nse script
has a portrule that makes it run when port 13 is "open" or "open|filtered".
Then it tries to read data from that port.

If it's successful, it force change the state of the port to "open"
using the nmap.set_port_state function:

http://nmap.org/nsedoc/modules/nmap.html#nmap.set_port_state

Can you write and submit a patch that does that?

David Fifield

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