Eric, why don't you setuid nmap as I did instead of using the root user (-u)?
Cheers, Luca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, I do not know how to run the most > recent code as root. Even if I did, I should think that I would not want > to run it as root for security reasons. So, that having been said, does > anyone know how to either grant root access to just the fingerprinting > threads or to give it enough access without granting root to it that it > will work under a non-root account? > > -- > > J. Eric Josephson > Director of Network and System Operations > 978-720-2159 > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > "Stuart Herd > - IT Dept." To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <sherd@roypla cc: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > s.com> Subject: re: [Ntop] OS Finger printing >root access problem > > 03/18/2002 > 09:49 AM > > > > nmap requires root privileges to run with the OS fingerprinting flag (-O), > as you are running ntop as user jej nmap quits. > > ============================================================================ > > ======= > Message: 8 > Organization: Centro di Servizi per la rete di Ateneo - Pisa - Italy > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 08:53:47 -0500 > Subject: [Ntop] OS Finger printing root access problem. > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Linux 7.1 > CVS shot at 13:00 GMT 3/15/2002 > > Run as a non-root user with the following command line. > ntop -u jej -d -E -e 10000 -U http://10.10.0.99/cgi-bin/mapper.pl -P1 -m > 10.10.0.0/16 -p /root/protocols.txt -P /tmp ether host 00:50:54:FF:D5:FF > and not net 10.150/16 or ether host ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > When I go into system details my console gets this: > > TCP/IP fingerprinting (for OS scan) requires root privileges which you do > not appear to possess. Sorry, dude. > > QUITTING! > > How do I solve this problem? Thanks! > > -- > > J. Eric Josephson > Director of Network and System Operations > 978-720-2159 > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > PRIVILEGED / CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION may be contained in this message. If > you are not the addressee indicated in this message or the employee or > agent > responsible for delivering it to the addressee, you are hereby on notice > that you are in possession of confidential and privileged information. Any > dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail is strictly > prohibited. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly > notify > the sender by reply e-mail. Please advise immediately if you or your > employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. > Opinions, conclusions, and other information in this message that do not > relate to the official business of the sender's firm shall be understood as > neither given nor endorsed by it. E-mail cannot be guaranteed to be secure, > error free or free from viruses. Royal does not accept any liability > whatsoever for any loss or damage which may be caused as a result of the > transmission of this e-mail. > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listmanager.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop -- Luca Deri NETikos S.p.A. Via Matteucci 34/B 56124 Pisa, Italy. Ph. +39/050/968.639 Fax. +39/050/968.626 Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Business: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.lucaderi.org/ ICQ: 68183632 Hacker: someone who loves to program and enjoys being clever about it - Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listmanager.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
