Re: LUA Bug?

[Michael Pattrick <mpattrick () rhinovirus org>]

W.R.T. the wsdd fix, wouldn't it be more reasonable to have calls to
optional libraries like "require openssl" fail quietly in scripts? Or
perhaps this suggestion is a can of worms, as it would require a lot
of effort to implement and fundamentally changes how NSE scripts fail.

-M

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Patrik Karlsson <patrik () cqure net> wrote:
> On 30 jan 2011, at 12.02, Djalal Harouni wrote:
>
> > On 2011-01-30 05:39:57 -0500, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Michael Pattrick
> > > <mpattrick () rhinovirus org> wrote:
> > > > Hello devs,
> > > >
> > > > While playing around with a recent Nmap release I found that scripts
> > > > weren't working for me, see the following command line log. It appears
> > > > to be a problem with the LUA environment variables. The environment is
> > > > a nearly fresh CentOS5 install. I haven't tested this out on other
> > > > platforms but a quick google search reveals at least one other person
> > > > has had problems with this bug (http://pastebin.com/cFXre59L). Any
> > > > ideas?
> > >
> > > The SCRIPT_* globals aren't defined until a script is instantiated
> > > (executed against a host:port; see Script.new versus Script.new_thread
> > > in nse_main.lua). This probably should be changed.
> > Yes they should be loaded in the Script.new function, I'm looking at
> > this.
>
> Great! While at it, could you please fix the mess I did in ssh-hostkey and change it back from filename to 
> SCRIPT_NAME? :)
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