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

Bryan Baldwin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.new-zealand.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/10/2011 3:00 PM, Robin Paulson wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:54:56 +1300, Robin Sheat wrote:
>>> 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?
>
> i think the latter
>
>> 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.
>
> me neither. any suggestions on software/script to do the former, i.e.
> check every file?
>

Something like this could help.

http://www.tripwire.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Tripwire

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