Giacomo Mulas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 9 February 2001 12:23: >On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Rolf Kutz wrote: > >> Wade Richards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >> > I've got a rescue CD with most of the packages on it, and most(*) of >> > those packages include MD5 sums for all the files. >> > >> > There should be a way to, after booting up on my rescue CD, check all >> > my files against the MD5 checksums on the CD (ignoring the conffiles, >> > of course). >> >> Tripwire >> >> > Better yet, for the packages that are not on my CD, it could get the >> > MD5s from the FTP archive. >> > >> > Does anyone know of such a feature already in the rescue disks? >> >> No, but you can do it with tripwire.
Another alternative is to use sxid. It can be configured to check not only s[ug]id programs but any files and directories. And I think checking conf files is as important as checking binaries.
