On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 03:22:10PM +0000, Colin Phipps wrote:
> > Well and the one that you won't catch to much more damage to your system
> > and create a higher risk then the one you catch.
>
> Agreed, if someone gets root on your system there's no way you can
> guarantee detecting it. But you can try. Whether md5sums is worthwhile
> I don't know, I guess you'd have to look for some statistics on
> rootkits and such...
>
Well, you certainly can't catch them with debsums.
You can probably catch them with tripwire, if you're willing to spend
lots of time and effort using it.
I was motivated by the idea that Debian could do much better than
tripwire - ie, the same security, with much less effort on the part of
the administrator.
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