Re: Script Arguments and IDs

["Patrick Donnelly" <batrick.donnelly () gmail com>]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Kris Katterjohn <katterjohn () gmail com> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> The NSE documentation says this on script arguments[1]:
>
> "As a general rule the subtables used to override options for scripts should
> be named as the script's id, since otherwise scripts can't know where to
> search for their arguments."
>
> The example:
>
> "{user="foo",pass="bar",anonFTP={pass="nobody () foobar com"}}"
>
>
> However, many scripts have IDs which don't allow for this "scoping".  This can
> be caused by a space (e.g. "SSH Protocol Version 1") or hyphen (e.g.
> "zone-transfer") in the script id.

You can get around that by doing this:

--script-args 'user=foo,pass=bar,["zone-transfer"]={pass="barbar"}'

Cheers,

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing
to do and always a clever thing to say."

-Will Durant

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