nmap/nmap

Zenmap (as root) not working on centos 7

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#1,088 opened on Dec 20, 2017

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Description

[zosy@localhost:~]% rpm -qa zenmap zenmap-7.60-1.noarch

gnome doesn't use gksu instead of pkexec, so i made a patch. su-to-zenmap-fix-gnome-root.patch.txt

add com.gnome.pkexec.zenmap.policy to /usr/share/polkit-1/actions should works fine.

com.gnome.pkexec.zenmap.policy.txt

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Research direction
The issue provides a patch for Zenmap to work as root on CentOS 7 GNOME. The patch adds a polkit policy file and modifies the su to zenmap script. To resolve, review the patch, ensure it works on other Linux distributions, and consider integrating it into the repository. Check the existing comments for additional context on compatibility.