Problem using ~/.nmap/nselib/

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

Hey list,

I was trying to use the per-user Nmap directory ~/.nmap to test a 
library, and I found that, unlike with scripts, Nmap only supports one 
nselib directory. It will happily use ~/.nmap/nselib, or 
$NMAPDIR/nselib, but will complain that every other NSE library cannot 
be found. Here is the error as I see it:

> Starting Nmap 5.59BETA3 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2011-09-19 17:24 CDT
> Warning: File ./nselib/ exists, but Nmap is using 
> /home/miller/.nmap/nselib/ for security and consistency reasons.  set 
> NMAPDIR=. to give priority to files in your local directory (may 
> affect the other data files too).
> NSE: failed to initialize the script engine:
> /usr/local/bin/../share/nmap/nse_main.lua:131: module 'stdnse' not found:
>     no field package.preload['stdnse']
>     no file '/home/miller/.nmap/nselib/stdnse.lua'
>     no file './stdnse.lua'
>     no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/stdnse.lua'
>     no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/stdnse/init.lua'
>     no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/stdnse.lua'
>     no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/stdnse/init.lua'
>     no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/stdnse.lua'
>     no file '/usr/share/lua/5.1/stdnse/init.lua'
>     no file './stdnse.so'
>     no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/stdnse.so'
>     no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.1/stdnse.so'
>     no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'
> stack traceback:
>     [C]: in function 'require'
>     /usr/local/bin/../share/nmap/nse_main.lua:131: in main chunk
>     [C]: ?
>
> QUITTING!

Is there a good reason for doing it this way, or should I spend the time 
to hunt this down and add the proper locations to the package.path? Or 
has someone already looked at this?

Dan


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