From 97ebf72f84b21f434c46258353e1e06fea4872e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: fyodor Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:49:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] minor updates --- docs/scripting.xml | 18 ++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/scripting.xml b/docs/scripting.xml index 5bd509562..c836c95a4 100644 --- a/docs/scripting.xml +++ b/docs/scripting.xml @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ growing and diverse set of scripts distributed with Nmap, or write their own to meet custom needs. - NSE was designed to be versatile so these are some of the tasks we had in mind when creating the system: + We designed NSE to to versatile, with the following tasks in mind @@ -36,11 +36,11 @@ is able to recognize thousands of different services through its probe and regular expression based matching system, but it cannot recognize everything. For example, identifying the Skype v2 service requires two - independent probes which version detection isn't flexible enough to handle. Nmap could also recognize more SNMP services + independent probes, which version detection isn't flexible enough to handle. Nmap could also recognize more SNMP services if it tried a few hundred different community names by brute force. Neither of these tasks are well suited to traditional - Nmap version detection but are particularly easy accomplish with - NSE. Because of this, version detection now seamlessly calls NSE by + Nmap version detection, but both are easily accomplished with + NSE. For these reasons, version detection now calls NSE by default to handle some tricky services. This is described in . @@ -57,9 +57,8 @@ before the bad guys do. While Nmap isn't a comprehensive vulnerability scanner, NSE is powerful enough to handle even demanding vulnerability - checks. A few vulnerability detection scripts have already been - written and we plan to distribute additional scripts for very severe - or common vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. + checks. Many vulnerability detection scripts have already been + written and we plan to distribute more as they are written. @@ -98,9 +97,8 @@ - The listed items are just the initial script classes. It is - likely that Nmap users will come up with even more inventive - uses for NSE. + The listed items were our initial goals, but we expect that Nmap + users will come up with inventive uses for NSE. The Nmap Scripting Engine is a new Nmap feature