Re: ncrack config dir patches

["Steve 'Ashcrow' Milner" <smilner () redhat com>]

On 25/09/09 13:58 -0700, Fyodor wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 09:27:12AM -0400, Steve 'Ashcrow' Milner wrote:
> > On 25/09/09 09:13 -0400, Jay Fink wrote:
> > >On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org> wrote:
> > >>
> >
> > The confusion may be in that ncrack-services is seen as a
> > configuration file and not a data file. If this is a file that
> > shouldn't be modified then I agree it should be in the systems
> > datadir.
>
> I suppose people could modify it, but that is not recommmended.  If
> they want to use a custom services file, it is usually better for them
> to put it in ~/.ncrack or specify the location with the --datadir
> command-line option or the NCRACKDIR environmental variable.

OK, makes sense. I'll take this back to the reviewers.

> By the way, my second comment (about /usr/local/share/ncrack vs
> /usr/share/ncrack) refers only to the documentation.  A properly
> installed Ncrack knows where its data files are, but we might want to
> reference both possible locations in the documentation because people
> who install Nmap in different ways may still read the docs online.
>
> Cheers,
> -F

Sounds good to me :-).


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