Nmap Development: Re: Draft for hosted cgi

[Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <buanzo () buanzo com ar>]

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Julien Delange wrote:
> - The separation between daemon and cgi is very important, because run nmap
> through Apache is a __very__ bad idea (it means you have nmap suid or you
> have to run apache as root, ...)
Three more options:

1) use sudo (which, of course, is like running nmap as root)
2) use scan types that no rely on root privileges
3) use linux capabilities, to grant an unprivileged user the required raw sockets capabilities.

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