Nmap Development: Re: nessus closes source question

["DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest () gmail com>]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 5:25 PM, sara fink <> wrote:
> > I think Nmap is *already* capable of doing everything Nessus was doing
> > six years ago (when Tenable was born) because of the flexibility Lua
> > and NSE provide.  All we need is people to keep writing useful
> > scripts.
> I wish I knew. I am very new to scripting and nmap. Maybe some video
> examples of scripting will open the apetite.
>
> Is there a database of scripts? I never used it with nmap.
> > -Jason
> >
> > --
Read all about it: http://nmap.org/book/nse.html

If you have nmap installed on your system, look in the 'scripts' directory.

On Windows, it is "C:\Program Files\Nmap\scripts" by default and on my
Linux self-compiled install, it is "/usr/local/share/nmap/scripts"

Each .nse file is a text-file script written in Lua
(http://www.lua.org/about.html) with custom extensions.

You can look at them in any text editor.

Try vim for Linux and turn on syntax highlighting but force it to use Lua.

For Windows I use UltraEdit; I've written my own syntax highlighting
file for that one.

Those should give you a decent idea of what Nmap can do so far.

-Jason

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