{"id":361,"date":"2007-01-01T23:44:41","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T23:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2014-08-04T20:21:49","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T20:21:49","slug":"running-nmap-on-intel-macs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2007\/01\/01\/running-nmap-on-intel-macs\/","title":{"rendered":"Running NMAP on Intel Macs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I switched to an Intel based Mac I had always used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=214\" target=\"_blank\">NMapFE<\/a> as my <code>nmap<\/code> front end. Since I only need to run <code>nmap<\/code> on my G4 MacMini at home and my G5 PowerMac at work I didn&#8217;t notice until today that NMapFE doesn&#8217;t work in Intel Macs. I had recommended NMapFE to Allison of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podfeet.com\" target=\"_blank\">NosillaCast<\/a> and she replied to tell me it didn&#8217;t work for her. I tried it on my own MacBookPro and sure enough, it doesn&#8217;t work. So, I went hunting for a good <code>nmap<\/code> GUI for Intel Macs and eventually came up with a good solution. The bad news is that this solution involves installing three things separately. But, don&#8217;t worry, all three are small and painlessly simple to install.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]nmap, security, Mac, OS X[\/tags]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first thing you have to install is the <code>nmap<\/code> command-line tool. You have a couple of options here including building from source or getting from Fink but IMO the simplest thing to do is to download the universal binary package from <a href=\"http:\/\/caffeineconcepts.com\/pak\/NMap-4.11-MacOS-Universal.pkg.zip\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and install it. This will install version 4.11 of <code>nmap<\/code> to <code>\/usr\/local\/bin\/<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage you have a fully working command-line version of <code>nmap<\/code> but no GUI. <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/natritmeyer\/\" target=\"_blank\">XNmap<\/a> is a nice free GUI which allows you to specify which <code>nmap<\/code> binary to use so it can work with any <code>nmap<\/code> you choose to install. Once you have that installed you can do many types of scan but not all. XNmap doesn&#8217;t run with admin privileges like NMapFE does so you can&#8217;t run all types of scan from it. To get around this problem I wrote a very simple little application called <em>XNmap Launcher<\/em> which lets you easily launch XNmap with full administrator privileges so all scan types can be used. You can get this little app from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/downloads.php\" target=\"_blank\">downloads page<\/a> on my website or from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/downloads\/XNmapLauncher.dmg\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I switched to an Intel based Mac I had always used NMapFE as my nmap front end. Since I only need to run nmap on my G4 MacMini at home and my G5 PowerMac at work I didn&#8217;t notice until today that NMapFE doesn&#8217;t work in Intel Macs. 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