Hmm.. that's what I figured.
Oh well, I'll just run ntop as root again :)

Thanks Burton.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Burton M. Strauss III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

> Realistically, those are your two choices with current nmap:
> 
> 1. -u root
> 2. setuid on nmap
> 3. don't run nmap
> 
> What it's doing is this:
> 
> nmap -p 23,21,80,138,139,548 -O <address>
> 
> to do OS fingerprinting which requires root....
> 
> Thoughts:
> 
> A nmap server (see http://rnmap.sourceforge.net/)?  Maybe run 
> this in a
> thread created BEFORE ntop changes it's effective userid 
> (would that even
> work?)
> 
> 
> -----Burton
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