zenmap: running as root

[Lukas Schwaighofer]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 13:13:06 +0200
Hilko Bengen <bengen at debian.org> wrote:

> * for most of zenmap's functionality, there is really no reason to run
>   as root.
> 
> Just a thought: Perhaps we should patch zenmap to use pkexec when
> running nmap.

True enough.  I had also thought about it had discarded it because I
didn't see how this would satisfy all possible user groups:
* those who do not have root privileges
* those who have them but want to execute a scan without root
* those who want to execute nmap as root

Now I thought about this a bit more and came up with the idea of an
extra button "Scan (root)".  I implemented it and played with it a
bit.  I think it works reasonably well so I created a pull request
upstream:  https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/1010

Let's see if upstream likes that.

Regards
Lukas