Re: bug with OS X

[Corey Chandler <lists () sequestered net>]

Tom Sellers wrote:
> Brandon Enright wrote:
>
> > > I'm running as admin on my OS X  box, but not root.  Do I have to be 
> > > running as root on my Mac?
> >
> > Well I don't know jack about OS X but I'm pretty sure "admin" is still
> > a non-root user.  You probably want to do "sudo nmap ...." and then
> > enter your user's password to get Nmap to run as root.
>
> Unless I am mistaken or some other settings have been implemented, by 
> default
> you have to use sudo to issue Terminal commands with root privileges, 
> even if
> your account is an administrators.  The same thing occurs during 
> software updates.
>
> Tom

You're correct.

For those of you using OS X (note: Macports is installed here; if you 
don't have it you'll need to tweak accordingly) to build the latest 
subversion builds, I humbly submit my updatenmap script:

#!/bin/bash
cd ~/sources/nmap
svn up && ./configure && make PYTHON=/opt/local/bin/python2.5 && sudo 
make install && sudo make distclean
/usr/local/bin/nmap -V

--
Corey Chandler / KB1JWQ
Living Legend / Systems Exorcist
Today's Excuse: broadcast packets on wrong frequency


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