Nmap Development: Re: Zenmap on Mac OS X howto

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:39:35PM -0400, Daniel Johnson wrote:
> On Apr 3, 2008, at 12:00 PM, David Fifield wrote:
> > Any Mac users care to comment? I'm working on creating a .app bundle  
> > of
> > Zenmap, however that is turning out to be more difficult than
> > anticipated.
> I've tried this several times and never got it working. There are so  
> many dependencies that the process seems very fragile. But the biggest  
> issue is that even if you succeed, the .app bundle will be useless  
> anyway unless you're logged in as root when you run it. You could  
> certainly run it from Terminal with sudo, but then there isn't much  
> point in having an .app bundle. :)
Maybe we can make it pop up an authentication dialog: "Zenmap requires
that you type your password."

David Fifield

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