Re: nmap doesn't work as root

[Steven Thomas Smith <s.t.smith () ieee org>]

5.10BETA1 it is -- that worked, and yes, on 10.6.2. Thanks much.

Best,

Steve

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:59 PM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 04:27:11PM -0500, Steven Thomas Smith wrote:
> > I've downloaded and compiled nmap 5.00 and have run into an old problem:
> > nmap doesn't run correctly a root. Compare nmap behavior as user to sudo:
> >
> > [~]% *nmap 192.168.1.110*
> > Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-11-21 16:14 EST
> > Warning: File ./nmap-services exists, but Nmap is using
> > /usr/local/share/nmap/nmap-services for security and consistency reasons.
> > set NMAPDIR=. to give priority to files in your local directory (may
> affect
> > the other data files too).
> > Interesting ports on 192.168.1.110:
> > Not shown: 994 closed ports
> > PORT     STATE SERVICE
> > 22/tcp   open  ssh
> > 111/tcp  open  rpcbind
> > 139/tcp  open  netbios-ssn
> > 445/tcp  open  microsoft-ds
> >
> > *Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.12 seconds
> > *[~]% *sudo nmap 192.168.1.110*
> > Password:
> >
> > Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-11-21 16:14 EST
> > Warning: File ./nmap-services exists, but Nmap is using
> > /usr/local/share/nmap/nmap-services for security and consistency reasons.
> > set NMAPDIR=. to give priority to files in your local directory (may
> affect
> > the other data files too).
> > Warning: Unable to open interface vmnet8 -- skipping it.
> > Warning: Unable to open interface vmnet1 -- skipping it.
> > *Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes,
> > try -PN
> > Nmap done: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 0.26 seconds
> > *
> > For a history of this problem, see:
> > *
> > HAVE_IP_IP_SUM 0 doesn't work for root<
> http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2006/q1/65>
>
> Is this on Mac OS X 10.6? If so, please try version 5.10BETA1, released
> yesterday. Also, there may be problems if you are running 10.6 or
> 10.6.1, but 10.6.2 should work fine.
>
> David Fifield
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