Ack! I've been rooted...

[Mark Knoop]

On 02/02/07, Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
> I read this thread and I have a question on why this problem is not
> handled in a more direct approach instead of the blood&guts reload
> approach: If you simply reinstall the rpm package (something like)
>
> rpm --replacepkgs -vh rpm-4.4.1-22.i386.rpm
>
> then you know that the binaries are good. From there all you have to do is

Well that's not quite true, is it. Presumably you suggest is to
reinstall rpm because of the possibility that it has been hacked. But
if you're using a hacked version of rpm to reinstall it, you can't be
sure that it is doing as it is supposed to - i.e. the hacked rpm could
be just spitting the package into /dev/null whilst appearing to
reinstall it.

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Mark Knoop