Nmap Development: [NSE] Fix for auth-owners.nse (original) (raw)

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From: Richard Sammet <richard.sammet () googlemail com>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:36:19 +0100

Hi Guys,

I noticed that the script auth-owners.nse is not working with some ident daemons. After a few seconds of debugging I identified the problem:

owner = string.match(owner, "USERID : .+ : (.+)\n", 1)

This would only match if the format of the reply exactly matches with all the whitespaces. E.g. (gidentd):

22, 45200 : USERID : UNIX : root

Most of the identd's I tested this script against are replying with (e.g. oidentd, openbsd-identd, ...):

22,45200:USERID:UNIX:root

And in this case the script will not report anything.

I wrote a small patch which fixes that issue and makes it working with every format I've seen so far... (attached)

Greetings, Richard

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