Re: [Security-Discuss] Diff check reports

Vincent Danen <vdanen-7Aj/b8uzpy6AmYF/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.security.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jun 9, 2004, at 11:13 AM, Anton J Aylward CISSP CISA wrote:

>> No, it's not tripwire, it's msec doing a simply md5 comparison of 
>> files.
>
> OK, but how can I reset the baseline?

There is no baseline (or, rather, yesterday's report was the baseline). 
  It's a diff... it compares the previous day's checks to today's 
checks.

If you're referring to the rpm test ("files in these packages have 
changed"), the baseline is rpm itself.  If you change a config file, it 
will forever show up as a changed file.

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