[Nikto-discuss] Disabling interactive question

Sullo csullo at gmail.com
Tue Sep 7 10:09:18 CDT 2010


I added a line to the short help output to say it's short and use -H...

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Frank Breedijk
<FBreedijk at schubergphilis.com> wrote:
> Shoot, first line of nikto -Help output (I typed -help again).
>
> I should have looked at the code... Will make it part of the code.
>
> Thanks Jabra!
>
> Frank Breedijk
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sullo [mailto:csullo at gmail.com]
> Sent: 07 September 2010 16:52
> To: Jabra
> Cc: Frank Breedijk; nikto-discuss at attrition.org
> Subject: Re: [Nikto-discuss] Disabling interactive question
>
> Or you could just use '-ask no' (or yes/auto)... :-)
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Jabra <jabra at spl0it.org> wrote:
>> Using: echo "yes" will only pass one instance of "yes" to nikto if it
>> asks for user input.
>>
>> Using: yes | nikto would pass as many "yes" inputs until nikto
>> completes.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jabra
>>
>> On 07.Sep.2010 04:40PM +0200, Frank Breedijk wrote:
>>> I can see it is still morning there and end of workday here ;)
>>> Yes|nikto ... will work. Nikto does take y for an answer.
>>>
>>> Frank Breedijk
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jabra [mailto:jabra at spl0it.org]
>>> Sent: 07 September 2010 16:38
>>> To: Frank Breedijk
>>> Cc: Jabra; nikto-discuss at attrition.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Nikto-discuss] Disabling interactive question
>>>
>>> I'm not seeing such an option...
>>>
>>>
>>> Not to be too picky shouldn't it be 'yes yes |nikto' ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jabra
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 07.Sep.2010 04:30PM +0200, Frank Breedijk wrote:
>>> > I know, however, it is a bit impractical to have to check if this is present, especially as I don't know where the configuration file will be in the system. Is there a command line option to disable it?
>>> >
>>> > The following will do the trick, but feels like cheating:
>>> > echo y | nikto .....
>>> >
>>> > Frank Breedijk
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>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: Jabra [mailto:jabra at spl0it.org]
>>> > Sent: 07 September 2010 16:29
>>> > To: Frank Breedijk
>>> > Cc: nikto-discuss at attrition.org
>>> > Subject: Re: [Nikto-discuss] Disabling interactive question
>>> >
>>> > There is an option in the nikto.conf to not ask the user if they
>>> > want to send updates to cirt.net
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Josh
>>> >
>>> > On 07.Sep.2010 04:24PM +0200, Frank Breedijk wrote:
>>> > > When there is a mismatch between the server signature and the signature on file, Nikto asks you to submit it. Is there a way to disable this prompt ? Since I run nikto from Seccubus I need to make sure it finishes and not spends forever waiting for user input.
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > *****************************************************************
>>> > > ***
>>> > > *
>>> > >       Portions of the server's ident string (Apache/2.2.9) are
>>> > > not in
>>> > >       the Nikto database or is newer than the known string. Would
>>> > > you like
>>> > >       to submit this information (*no server specific data*) to
>>> > > CIRT.net
>>> > >       for a Nikto update (or you may email to sullo at cirt.net) (y/n)?
>>> > >
>>> > > Kind regards,
>>> > > Frank Breedijk
>>> > >
>>> > >
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