On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Mark Brown wrote: > That's just performing a connect() scan - it doesn't require any > monkeying around directly with the interfaces (which pinging does). If > you try one of the cleverer scans (eg, -sS) it should complain about not > finding interfaces even without -P0. The reason it works as a user is > because users don't have enough access to do anything that requires nmap > to form packets itself (like ping does).
Ah, ok...yeah, I just realised this while poking through the convoluted code. Gives me a better idea of what to look for now :-) C
