tool to check security

Rob DeSanno rdesanno at gmail.com
Tue Feb 1 18:49:31 UTC 2011


I'm not at a pc right now but there is a yum plugin you can get and
run. I think its called yum-security and will tell you maybe what you
are looking for.

On 2/1/11, m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> ESGLinux wrote:
> <snip>
>> What I want now is to check the problems like:
>> - current kernel 2.6.18-53.el5 has pottential security problems... (CVE,
>> ....)
>> - the user John has not password and a valid shell....
>> - given a package which CVEs affects this package
>>
>> Something like these.
>
> Hmmm, there are things like chkrootkit, but I'm not sure of any one tool
> that does all of this. Things like kernel potential security problems are
> usually announced by RH, and an update is offered.
>>
>> I´m going to give a try to bastille although the tool I´m looking for was
>> a shell command....
>>
> Bastille runs as a shell command, text or graphical mode.
>
>      mark
>
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