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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has my PC been compromised?
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 08:49:04
Message-Id: 20160415094847.2915b3a5@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has my PC been compromised? by Alan McKinnon
1 On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 10:40:34 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > All these chrootkit and rkhunter warnings are about /dev/shm/
4 > files/devices.
5 > > Is there something that makes anything in /dev/shm inherently
6 > > suspicious?
7 >
8 >
9 > Nope. It's just a place where shared memory cna be used.
10 >
11 > By far the most likely is that the script you use has an incomplete list
12 > of things that can be found in there
13
14 I have these entries in /etc/rkhunter.conf.local:
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16 ALLOWDEVFILE="/dev/shm/org.chromium.Chromium.shmem.*"
17 ALLOWDEVFILE="/dev/shm/pulse-shm-*"
18 ALLOWHIDDENFILE="/usr/share/man/man5/.k5identity.5.bz2"
19 ALLOWHIDDENFILE="/usr/share/man/man5/.k5login.5.bz2"
20 ALLOWHIDDENFILE="/usr/share/man/man5/.k5identity.5"
21 ALLOWHIDDENFILE="/usr/share/man/man5/.k5login.5"
22
23
24 --
25 Neil Bothwick
26
27 Znqr lbh ybbx!

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