[Novalug] bots question

Ken Kauffman kkauffman@headfog.com
Thu Dec 4 22:52:00 EST 2008


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

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 22:48, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 21:57 -0500, Scott Musman wrote:
>> In theory.. your integrity checker will be checking and reporting these
>> trojan events for you.. but these days it can be murky if you're also
>> doing updates. Since updates will often change parts of the OS monitored
>> by a integrity checker,  in theory you have to go the extra step and
>> confirm that any changes reported by your integrity checker coincide
>> with your updating procedure. Yuk!
>
> RPM verify and Debsums can help check for those cases.
>
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