Mostly splitting function summaries (the first paragraph of NSEdoc) from
the body of the description to make the summary indexes shorter and
easier to scan.
Also fixed some unbalanced code tags like <code>foo</table>
1. The first paragraph of a function's NSEdoc is used as a short
summary. Some of these were very long, so I split off a shorter summary.
2. Use asterisks (*) to denote bulletted lists, not 'o'
3. Wrap lines at 80 columns
4. a couple other spelling and formatting fixes
stdnse.print_debug accepts a format string and arguments, making
string.format redundant in calls of this form:
stdnse.print_debug(1, string.format("%s: error", SCRIPT_NAME))
stdnse.print_debug(("length %d"):format(#tab))
These can be rewritten as:
stdnse.print_debug(1, "%s: error", SCRIPT_NAME)
stdnse.print_debug("length %d", #tab)
Used this perl command:
$ # perl -pi -e 's/string\.len\((.*?)\)/#\1/g' *.lua
Also fixed one instance where the above command didn't correctly
translate the intended code (string.len(a .. b .. c)).
1) I wrote a function that formats output from scripts in a consistent way. Although we haven't really come to a concensus on how it should look yet, it's easy to change when we do.
2) New script: smb-enum-groups.nse. Enumerate the local groups on a system and their membership.
* Updated the way authentication works on smb -- it's significantly cleaner now
* smb-enum-shares.nse gives significantly better output now (it checks if shares are writable)
* Added a script that checks if smbv2 is enabled on a server
* Added smb-psexec, a script for executing commands on a remote Windows server. I also included some default scripts, a compiled .exe to run everything, and a ton of documentation (in the form of NSEDoc)
* Added 'override' parameters to some of the functions in smb.lua, which lets the programmer override any field in an outgoing SMB packet without modifying smb.lua.
* Lots of random code cleanups in the smb-* scripts/libraries
check_globals script.
Commented-out two functions which are currently unused:
svcctl_Type_tostr() and svcctl_State_tostr()
and which call currently unavailable functions:
svcctl_Type_str() and svcctl_State_str()
(see http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q3/0194.html )
Often two (or more) scripts using the same library would
overwrite the globals each was using. This would result
in (at best) an error or (at worst) a deadlock.
The patch changes the global accesses to local.
