Nmap Development: Re: [RFC] Default NSE Scripts

[Diman Todorov <diman.todorov () univie ac at>]

Hello,

> > 1) Quick
> How to measure this?  ...
> > 2) Generally Useful
> I reckon this is pretty subjective ...
> > 3) Not too intrusive
> How to measure this?  ...
Any objective measure for these characteristics will be ridiculous in  
20% of the cases. I suggest following the current process and decide  
for each script wether we want it in default or not based on common  
sense and discussion.

> > 4) Not in "version" category since those are run with -sV
> Agreed.  But wouldn't it be nice to run some of these version scripts
> without version scanning.
No. Version scripts were built as an extension to -sV. If the version  
category was specified on the command line but -sV was not given, the  
category is removed again. The reason is that version scripts put  
their output in the version column of the Nmap output table.

> > * mswindowsShell - "backdoor"
> My vote is to ditch it too.
I vote for ditching too. I wrote the script way back in 2006 along  
with some other obscure scripts (kibuv, xampp, ircZombie). I ported  
these scripts from the Nessus database to get a feeling of how  
expressive NSE is and to find out wether it is comparable in  
expressiveness with NASL.

cheers,
Diman

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