Re: ncrack config dir patches

[Jay Fink <jay.fink () gmail com>]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org> wrote:
> Thanks Steve!  I'm glad to see more people using Ncrack.  But does
> ncrack-services really need to be in /etc/ rather than the Ncrack data
> dir?  I have the Fedora Nmap package installed
> (nmap-5.00-1.fc11.x86_64) and it installs nmap-services in
> /usr/share/nmap.  That is consistent with what Ncrack is trying to do
> with ncrack-services.  My Fedora 11 /usr/share contains several
> hundred application-specific directories like this.

Typically shared _data_ goes in ~/share and configurations into ~/etc
or $HOME/.*rc.
It doesn't make sense to me that ncrack data should go in any ~/etc.

> Regarding changes like this:
>
> >  directory for real and effective UIDs (POSIX systems only) or location of the Ncrack executable (Win32 only), and 
> > then a compiled\-in location such as
> > -/usr/local/share/ncrack
> > +/usr/share/ncrack
>
> Perhaps we can try to modify it to work in both cases
> (e.g. "compiled-in location such as /usr/local/share/ncrack or
> /usr/share/ncrack") so that Fedora doesn't have to carry an extra
> patch which might get messed up and require hand merging when we make
> significant changes to the docs.

If there is a configure option would the default stay as is?
That would be my preference.

thx,


 j

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