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| author | Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> | 2014-05-26 13:05:48 +1200 |
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| committer | Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> | 2014-05-26 13:05:48 +1200 |
| commit | 4f44e0fd6880a55fe5b1cd1048c7e32c10cf43b4 (patch) | |
| tree | aa36255a49c17ceded08ed795b6889cf4caa2ed3 | |
| parent | Correct a few documentation paths (diff) | |
| download | nwatch-4f44e0fd6880a55fe5b1cd1048c7e32c10cf43b4.tar.gz nwatch-4f44e0fd6880a55fe5b1cd1048c7e32c10cf43b4.zip | |
Add notes about avoiding root
| -rw-r--r-- | README.markdown | 4 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | bin/nwatch | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man1/nwatch.1 | 4 |
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diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown index b9d4dce..53a1375 100644 --- a/README.markdown +++ b/README.markdown @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ intended to be called from `cron(8)`: I recommend you use [croncrypt](https://github.com/tejr/croncrypt), so you don't leak your network information in plain text in your email. +Please also consider whether your scan actually requires root privileges, and +could not instead be run by a dedicated user with appropriately limited +privileges. + License ------- @@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ # I recommend you use croncrypt, so you don't leak your network information in # plain text in your email: <https://github.com/tejr/croncrypt> # +# Please also consider whether your scan actually requires root privileges, and +# could not instead be run by a dedicated user with appropriately limited +# privileges. +# # Author: Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> # Copyright: 2014 # License: GPLv2 (same as Nmap itself) diff --git a/share/man/man1/nwatch.1 b/share/man/man1/nwatch.1 index 4481b44..d4a0e86 100644 --- a/share/man/man1/nwatch.1 +++ b/share/man/man1/nwatch.1 @@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ for running from cron(8): .PP I recommend you use croncrypt, so you don't leak your network information in plain text in your email: https://github.com/tejr/croncrypt +.PP +Please also consider whether your scan actually requires root privileges, and +could not instead be run by a dedicated user with appropriately limited +privileges. .SH SEE ALSO nmap(1), ndiff(1) .SH AUTHOR |