sudo command is not executed

[Luciogi]

 @user_is_root
 def nmap_os_detection(self, target, arg="-O", args=None): # requires root
 """
 nmap -oX - nmmapper.com -O
 NOTE: Requires root
 """
 xml_root = self.scan_command(target=target, arg=arg, args=args)
 results = self.parser.os_identifier_parser(xml_root)
 return results

@user_is_root exits control before scan_command(...) is executed (which run sudo nmap ...)

And

python3-nmap/nmap3/nmap3.py

Line 93 in 3de136b

return self.default_args.format(nmap=self.nmaptool, outarg="-oX")

should be as

return self.default_args.format(nmap="sudo "+self.nmaptool, outarg="-oX")

[nmmapper]

Good suggestion, though i don't think it's a good idea to hard code sudo command like that. Any other solution is welcome

[Luciogi]

We can make Variable PRIVILEGE_CMD="sudo".
There are other alternatives for sudo like doas
to handle that we can make condition as in pseudo code

if ( PRIVILEGE_CMD is empty):
 PRIVILEGE_CMD="sudo"
else:
 PRIVILEGE_CMD=readFromEnvironment()

I have not searched how can be this useful for gui apps with polkit to get root privileges

[nmmapper]

The library was designed to be a little easier to use, if possible the decorate user_is_root returns Json, is there a way you can use the returned json to determine how to use sudo?