Re: Please help

["M.Younas Imran" <myimran () yahoo com>]

Thank you all of you, i am running UBUNTU 12.04 and Nmap 5.61TEST5.



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 From: James Rogers <jamesmrogers () gmail com>
To: Hani Benhabiles <kroosec () gmail com>; James Rogers <jamesmrogers () gmail com>; "nmap-dev () insecure org" 
<nmap-dev () insecure org>; M.Younas Imran <myimran () yahoo com> 
Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 2:47 AM
Subject: Re: Please help
 
Maybe the error message could be more descriptive about how to
properly run the script?

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:10 PM, David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 09:35:42PM +0100, Hani Benhabiles wrote:
> > On 05/31/2012 09:31 PM, James Rogers wrote:
> > > http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/http-brute.html
> > >
> > > > From the code http://nmap.org/svn/scripts/http-brute.nse :
> > >
> > > local path = nmap.registry.args['http-brute.path']
> > >
> > > if ( not(path) ) then
> > >             return "  \n  ERROR: No path was specified (see http-brute.path)"
> > >     end
> > >
> > > So it appears that you are getting an error message because there is
> > > no registry key of 'http-brute.path'.
> > >
> > > On what operating system/version are you running the command?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:49 AM, M.Younas Imran<myimran () yahoo com>  wrote:
> > > > Hello! If I have bothered you by any mean, I am realy sorry, but either solve my problem or direct me to the URL,
> > > > my problem:
> > > >
> > > > Starting Nmap 5.61TEST5 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-05-31 16:43 PKT
> > > > Nmap scan report for 192.168.202.240
> > > > Host is up (0.00085s latency).
> > > > PORT   STATE SERVICE
> > > > 80/tcp open  http
> > > > | http-brute:
> > > > |_  ERROR: No path was specified (see http-brute.path)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I do not understand the ERROR message.
> > > > Thank you.
> > > > Regards.
> > > > Younas.
> >
> > It means he should use --script-args="/somepath"
> >
> > And thinking about it, the path should be default to root like most
> > other http scripts.
> >
> > local path = nmap.registry.args['http-brute.path'] or "/"
>
> I believe that http-brute requires a script argument by design, to
> reduce the chance that you run it accidentally.
>
> David Fifield
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