Hari Sekhon wrote:
> I would very much like it if nmap could update it's signature database
> for fingerprinting remote hosts.
>
> For example
>
> nmap --update
> fetching latest fingerprints....
> done
>
> I have been using nmap for a few years and to my knowledge this isn't a
> current feature (please correct me if I am wrong. I also just did "nmap
> --help|grep update" and got nothing).
> When using an older nmap it fails to fingerprint systems as well as a
> modern nmap. I'm currently using nmap 4.20.
>
> The reason I ask for this feature is not because I'm too lazy to upgrade
> to the latest version but because on livecds and such you are sometimes
> using old versions on nmap and it would be excellent if you could just
> nmap --update and get the latest sigs. For example, Knoppix STD has nmap
> 3.48 on it and rather than installing a new nmap every time you reboot,
> it would be better to just nmap --update && nmap [options] target.
>
> Really nmap --update could do a lot more than just sigs, but also
> nmap-service-probes and other nmap-* files in /usr/share/nmap or
> /usr/local/share/nmap, perhaps even upgrading the whole thing in place
> including the nmap binary so the second run is using a fully updated
> nmap! (but that really is up to you if you wanted to be that nice -
> however that would be Awesome. )
>
> I know that the fingerprint db has recently been changed but I'm not
> sure how this affects this feature request.
>
>
> Thanks for reading.
>
> -h
>
I've actually slowly been playing with something like this. I got the
idea from ettercap --update. My thing semi-works but I never seem to be
able to mess with it for more than a minute or two at a time. Something
also seems to happen right after I open it, so I thought the Universe
was trying to give me a hint :) Mine updates all the nmap-* files.
But yeah, if anybody else wants to do this instead that'd be great.
-Kris
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