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Nmap Development: Re: The difficulty of running Nmap with privileges on Mac OS X

Re: The difficulty of running Nmap with privileges on Mac OS X

From: <bmenrigh_at_ucsd.edu>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 15:40:48 -0700 (PDT)

>
> I like this option by far the best. I think that shipping setuid
> binaries is a bad idea, generally speaking, and I think that not killing
> the nmap process when a tab is closed is better than shipping a setuid
> binary. What about some wrapper script that's not setuid, but that you
> execute with AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges? It could exec nmap and
> output the pid to stdout or something. Just a thought.
>
> Benson
>

Or another hack: put a undocumented --pid option in Nmap so that Nmap
reports the PID on execution.

Brandon

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