Re: FYI

["Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris@debian.org>]

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