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

Andrew Simpson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.new-zealand.general
Message-ID <20111006180116.3e4867ea@orion>
On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:33:47 +1300
Robin Sheat <[email protected]> wrote:

> Op donderdag 06-10-2011 om 15:24 uur [tijdzone +1300], schreef Robin
> Paulson:
> >  excellent, i'll give it a whirl. but it brings up this question:
> >  is there anything to check the tripwire database, to ensure it
> > hasn't 
> >  been tampered with? 
> 
> It gets manually generated, so when you do that, burn it onto a CD-R
> (not -RW :) and leave that in the drive.
> 
> It's by no means a foolproof system, but it's better'n nothing.

Take an MD5 sum (or SHA1 if you prefer) and write down on a piece of
paper.

I've yet to see malware that can change writing on paper...

Andrew

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