Re: FYI


Subject: Re: FYI
From: Christopher C. Chimelis (chris@debian.org)
Date: Thu Jul 06 2000 - 06:59:08 PDT


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

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