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

Bruce Kingsbury <[email protected]>
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Fairly sure deb can verify all the binaries installed by a package .. I
think I had to do it once...

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 On Oct 6, 2011 2:55 PM, "Robin Sheat" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Op donderdag 06-10-2011 om 13:43 uur [tijdzone +1300], schreef Robin
> Paulson:
>> i would guess to check for suspicious files that have replaced files
>> from the repo? i.e. ensuring you've still got the exact binary
>> installed
>> that you want/should have?
>
> But, is it checking the sigs on the binaries, or just that the RPM you
> installed was fine?
>
> Actually, if every manifest contains the hash of each installed file,
> and that manifest is signed, then it would be useful to verify the
> integrity of those aspects of the system.
>
> But I don't think it's doing that.
>
> Robin.
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