wtf ... Something strips installed binaries???

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Tue Sep 2 12:41:23 UTC 2008


On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 07:01:43 -0200,
  Thomas M Steenholdt <tmus at tmus.dk> wrote:
>
> I wasn't even aware that prelinking actually changed the files. Isn't  
> this kind of dangerous from a system-integrity point-of-view. How can we  
> ever validate binaries if they are modified on purpose?

I run rpmverify to check installed files and it seems to handle prelinked
files reasonably. I don't know what it does to check them, but it does
appear to be able to.




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