Re: nmap-updater status?

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

Mike,

There is a lot that goes into a system like this. I gave a short answer on
issue #152 [1], but I'll give it another go here:

Maintaining the nmap-update infrastructure requires a significant degree of
effort, since it requires keeping up compatible versions of NSE scripts and
(in rarer cases) datafiles. Given the time and resource constraints under
which we operate, we have chosen to focus on consistent and regular
releases to provide a reasonably up-to-date experience for our users.

Regarding "certain users," the reality is that nmap-update is limited to
Nmap developers with SVN commit access, mostly because nmap-update uses
Subversion to retrieve and manage updates. This should not cause anyone to
feel left out, however, since the actual content that can be retrieved has
not been updated in over 3 years.

Dan

[1] http://issues.nmap.org/152


On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Mike . <dmciscobgp () hotmail com> wrote:

> i am just an average user to nmap, so i have no idea what you all discuss
> each day behind-the-scenes about it's inner workings and all. i ran that
> updater and it spits out something like "this is experimental, only a
> chosen few are allowed access to it" etc. can i ask why this is? is this a
> hard thing to implement? for everyone to have the ability to use it? a
> simple cmd to run an update and pull everything new off the nmap host site
> and update oldest files and scripts to newest? so someone please let me
> know if you are working on this or if it will still only be "certain users"
> allowed to use it. thanks
>
> m|ke
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