Gentoo Archives: gentoo-security

From: Joby Walker <zorloc@××××××××.org>
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Cc: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] Built in integrity?
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 01:44:39
Message-Id: 40283779.3000307@imperium.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] Built in integrity? by Christian Schwede
1 Agreed. That's why I'd use a service specifically designed for this
2 like Samhain.
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4 jbw
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6 Christian Schwede wrote:
7 > Right. But this still isn't that useful - for watching binary files it's
8 > ok, but you wouldn't recognize changes to config files etc.
9 > So you have to store a seperate md5sum file/tree.
10 > Anyway - bevor bringing a server online you could burn this dir-tree to
11 > a cd or something else and verify which changes to binary files (trojans
12 > etc.) were made in case of a compromise. But then you have to store
13 > always an actual tree of /var/db/pkg/* - Huh...
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15 > Just my 2 cents.
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17 > Christian
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19 > Joby Walker wrote:
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21 >> They are not discussing the MD5s stored in the portage tree but the
22 >> MD5s that are generated and stored in the CONTENTS files
23 >> (/var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS), which are the compiled binaries.
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