rootkit?
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed Dec 14 07:06:20 UTC 2005
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 00:20 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 23:37 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>>
>>
>>>----
>>>Backing up data directories and reinstalling from scratch is the only
>>>known method to ensure the integrity of a system that has been
>>>compromised.
>>
>>Sun use to (still does?) allow you to enter an md5sum and it would tell
>>you exactly what file it matched, along with what patch level.
>
> rpm based systems have "rpm {-V|--verify}", which provide a comparable
> feature.
>
> Ralf
>
>
A point I overlooked when recommending "rpm -Va" is that there is some
possibility that the RPM database is clobbered.
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John
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