On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 07:49:00PM -0700, Steve Juranich wrote: > > Please remember that you're speaking to a recent convert from Mandrake. > There, all I would have to do would be 'rpm -V `which top`' and rpm would > tell me if the md5sum had been changed from the original package. Does dpkg
what is stopping the attacker from installing a replacment top package with the same name and version? or replacing /bin/rpm? then you would be none the wiser. > have a similar funcitonality? I couldn't find mention of it in the man page. debsums but like rpm -V its worthless for security. only useful for finding corruption due to disk crashes and whatnot. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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