RKHUNTER reporting on my system

Max Pyziur pyz at brama.com
Wed Apr 12 18:38:20 UTC 2006


> Hi,
>
> I have an FC2 system which rkhunter reports some suspicious
> files. In particular, during the MD5 hash scan, it reports
>
> 	/bin/dmesg
> 	/bin/kill
> 	/bin/login
> 	/bin/mount
> 	/usr/bin/kill

I run FC2 and have a similar issue.  I've run rkhunter --update many times
in the hopes of updating the installed database to resolve this problem. 
Is there a way of updating the the FC2-related rkhunter database in order
to resolve this?

Thanks.

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com

> as having unknown/incorrect hashes, and comments that this can
> be caused by using an old database or new binaries. I ran it
> again with --update, and it indeed pulled more database. However,
> it still reports those five files. It also now reports more
> packages as being old (it was complaining about 3, now about 4).
>
> It also doesn't like the fact that root can log in, and that
> SSHv1 is permitted to run.
>
> Anyway, does anyone have more information about why rkhunter
> might flag these programs?
>
> Mike
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