Re: GSoC idea

[kirubakaran S <kirubakaran1989 () gmail com>]

Hi David,
  Thanks for throwing light on issues related to my idea.


On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:53 AM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:46:20PM +0530, kirubakaran S wrote:
> > This is for Gsoc. I have an idea of developing a feature for nmap.But
> > I have only rough idea about its implementation.Normally scripts are
> > executed only as command line commands with arguments supplied
> > corresponding to the script run. As the number of scripts are
> > increasing due to large user community it is very hard to remember all
> > the scripts and its arguments for a naive user or else he/she has to
> > refer NSEdoc for its arguments.
> >
> > I suggest adding a feature to zenmap that provides neat interface for
> > selecting a script and providing arguments , with default arguments
> > are already filled up in boxes in interface. In addition we can add
> > several functionality like showing alert message when the user runs
> > intrusive,not safe category etc.. scripts.
>
> This is a highly desired feature and is one of the things I'm most
> excited about for this summer. A proposal for script selection in Zenmap
> is very welcome. To improve your chances of being selected, you should
> include in your proposal a graphic that shows what you want the
> interface to look like. You should give a high-level description of how
> you plan to implement it; for example, how will you extract script
> arguments from scripts? Simple parsing of the script source files is one
> way; loading the scripts in a Lua interpreter is another. Adding an
> option to Nmap to extract the information and then parsing it from
> Zenmap is a third.
>
> > if possible the script results can also be aggregated in to Zenmap
> > topology and hosts viewer. We can also add a search feature in Zenmap
> > that searches the script based on the keywords provided by user and
> > description in each script.
>
> This is a good idea too. I estimate that it is a lot easier than the
> script selection interface. It is true that Zenmap doesn't even parse
> script results from the XML file. It should do so, and find a place to
> display them. The search and filter functions should be able to examine
> script results.
>
> David Fifield



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Kirubakaran.S
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