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Re: Thoughts on script documentation
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 13:06:43 -0800
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:48:10AM -0600, Ron wrote:
This makes me think of another feature I've talked about before but that nobody's taken the reins on: the ability to update scripts without updating Nmap. Telling people to "download the svn" to get the newest scripts isn't always realistic, especially with Windows users, and stable builds can be months apart. Having the ability to download the newer nselib/script files in some way would be handy.
What if Nmap just came with a script that did the equivalent of rsync -r rsync://nmap.org/scripts/ /usr/share/nmap/scripts/ rsync -r rsync://nmap.org/nselib/ /usr/share/nmap/nselib/ This is pretty much what openvas-nvt-sync does. It also can download a .tar.bz2 file if rsync isn't installed. http://wald.intevation.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/openvas-scanner/tools/openvas-nvt-sync.in?rev=8017&root=openvas&view=markup Maybe rsync would be easy to get to Windows users. This also wouldn't solve the problem of version dependencies. I would also want there to be some kind of digital signature verification or something so nobody could spoof the feed. David Fifield _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
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- Thoughts on script documentation Daniel Miller (Nov 17)
- Re: Thoughts on script documentation Ron (Nov 18)
- Re: Thoughts on script documentation Rob Nicholls (Nov 18)
- Re: Thoughts on script documentation Fyodor (Nov 19)
- Re: Thoughts on script documentation Rob Nicholls (Nov 19)
- Re: Thoughts on script documentation Fyodor (Nov 19)
- RE: Thoughts on script documentation Rob Nicholls (Nov 20)
- Re: Thoughts on script documentation 'Fyodor' (Nov 20)
- Re: Thoughts on script documentation Rob Nicholls (Nov 18)
- Re: Thoughts on script documentation Ron (Nov 18)
- Re: Thoughts on script documentation Martin Holst Swende (Dec 10)