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

Tomislav <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.new-zealand.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/10/2011 13:32, Robin Sheat wrote:
> Op donderdag 06-10-2011 om 12:53 uur [tijdzone +1300], schreef Robin
> Paulson:
>>     Unfortunately there is no known way of verifying this on 
>>  Debian-based
>>     systems." 
> 
> Apt checks the sigs of the repo and the packages when you install from
> it, and whinges mightily if they don't match a known key.
> 
> I'm not totally sure what that snippet is doing, but it looks like it's
> seeing that there's sig on packages that are already installed, which I
> don't see the point of.
> 
> Robin.
> 
> 

It is useful if the repo key has been changed and you need to reinstall
everything that uses the old key for verification. But if you are that
worried a clean install is in order anyway.

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