Add support for individual arguments being sudo instead of needing the whole script be sudo about python3-nmap HOT 4 CLOSED

This is an interesting issue, i see your concern, unfortunately right now, there is no way of doing that in the script, but you can do something custom in your script as you wait for the solution on our part, I will surely find a way of doing it and update this issue.

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Here's a few solutions for elevating privileges with windows and linux if it helps.
I'll try cloning and branching to see whether I can get it working consistently on both linux and windows on Monday

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Ok, so I found an easy solution:

1. Add a secondary default_comman(self) function called default_command_privileged(self) which will return

   def default_command_privileged(self):
        os_type = sys.platform
        if os_type == 'win32':
            # Elevate privileges and return nmap command
        else:
        cmd = "which nmap"
        return self.default_args.format(nmap="sudo "+self.nmaptool, outarg="-oX")
        #the sudo part of the command will ask for a password by itself

For windows UAC, you can implement this code to elevate privileges:
https://gist.github.com/sylvainpelissier/ff072a6759082590a4fe8f7e070a4952

2. Make any scans that need sudo privileges (such as ICMP types or OS detections) use the default_command_privileged(self) instead

[optional] 3) add a module to run custom commands with privilege but without parsing

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Okay great solution.

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