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Joshua Enfield
Asked: 2011-01-28 10:52:54 +0800 CST

NMap - running as root yields different response than running as another user

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nmap -eeth1 [hostname] -p80

Running that command as root uses interface one and fails as expected (interface one is on a subnet blocked by the host.) Using interface 0 succeeds as it should.

However, if I switch to user zabbix then the above command succeeds no matter which valid interface I specify. If I specify a nonexistent interface it fails as expected.

Any idea why the output is different between root and the zabbix user?

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  1. Best Answer

    This may have something to do with requiring superuser privileges to set new routes. Regular users can't add new routes via route either. The non-privileged zabbix user is likely failing over to using the default routing table, but nmap is not generating a warning about it.

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