ubuntu-snap on IT Quicktaskshttps://quicktasks.ismael.casimpan.com/tags/ubuntu-snap/Recent content in ubuntu-snap on IT QuicktasksHugo -- gohugo.ioCopyright © 2018–2022, Ismael Casimpan Jr.; All Rights ReservedSat, 05 Sep 2020 00:20:25 +0800NMap cannot open a raw socket despite being roothttps://quicktasks.ismael.casimpan.com/post/nmap-cannot-open-socket-despite-being-root/Sat, 05 Sep 2020 00:20:25 +0800https://quicktasks.ismael.casimpan.com/post/nmap-cannot-open-socket-despite-being-root/ If you are seeing this error: 1~# nmap -Pn www.example.org 2Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-09-04 20:59 UTC 3Couldn't open a raw socket. Error: Permission denied (13) Most probably, installation was through Ubuntu's snap as follows: 1~# snap install nmap 2nmap 7.80 from Maximiliano Bertacchini (maxiberta) installed Solution is to run below command 1# snap connect nmap:network-control And re-run nmap command earlier.