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

[bmenrigh () ucsd edu]

> 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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