Hmm....quirks. Sure. Nessus and nmap are free while all the others  
you mentioned aren't. And, only two of the tools you asked about run  
on Linux.

In addition to RunAs that Jordan mentioned, there is also sudowin  
which works more like sudo than su like RunAs.
http://sudowin.sourceforge.net/

-jhs


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On Oct 7, 2007, at 10:35 PM, Matt wrote:
> Nmap says it needs admin. privileges so it can create raw packets  
> to run certain scans such as the SYN scan. Do the other scanning  
> tools for example, ISS Internet Scanner, Nessus, and eEye Retina,  
> have the same issue? If so, is there a sudo-like mechanism in  
> Windows to run them with elevated privileges but not under an  
> admin. account? While I'm at it, any quirks with the above tools I  
> should know about?