Re: securing a unix system - suggestions on checking for intrusions

Robin Paulson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.new-zealand.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 12:30:27 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Robin Paulson 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> this was posted on /. earlier, in the wake of the kernel.org 
>> intrusion last
>> month.
>>
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1197924
>>
>> it shows some interesting capabilities rpm has which deb doesn't
>
> I didn't see them, there was just a more laborious checking script 
> for
> debs as opposed to the built in option for rpms

 "3. Verify that your packages are really signed with the distro's keys.

    Here's a bash snippet that can do this on a rpm based system to
    verify that the packages are signed with any key, not necessarily
    your distro's key.  That exercise is left for the reader:

 	for package in `rpm -qa`; do
 		sig=`rpm -q --qf '%{SIGPGP:pgpsig}\n' $package`
 		if [ -z "$sig" ] ; then
 			# check if there is a GPG key, not a PGP one
 			sig=`rpm -q --qf '%{SIGGPG:pgpsig}\n' $package`
 			if [ -z "$sig" ] ; then
 				echo "$package does not have a signature!!!"
 			fi
 		fi
 	done

    Unfortunately there is no known way of verifying this on 
 Debian-based
    systems."

 ok, plural was wrong

-- 
 robin

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