Re: calling "zenmap" under a non-root user

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 09:32:50AM +0200, SCHMIDT, Jürgen wrote:
> Good Morning,
> I'm testing nmap release 5.51 under OpenSuse 11.4. I have a proposal
> for the grafical interface zenmap. If I'm not the root user, zenmap
> only says me, that I have limited rights. On the other hand the tool
> Wireshark asks me for the password of this user. If I know it, I can
> work without any limitations with this tool. If I'm working under a
> shell, it isn't any problem for me to change to root and then to call
> zenmap. Under the desktop like KDE or GNOME I have a link to the
> start-file for zenmap. In this case I must logout out and then login
> under the root user. That's me to complicate. I think, that it would
> be fine, if zenmap would work like Wireshark in this case. 

Our source code has scripts to prompt for a root password. If your
distribution doesn't use them, perhaps you can find out how to install
them yourself.

https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/zenmap/install_scripts/unix/zenmap-root.desktop
https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/zenmap/install_scripts/unix/su-to-zenmap.sh

David Fifield
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