On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:33:27PM +0800, Orlando Andico wrote:
> We all love rpm -V. It's only a matter of time when:
> 
> a) some worm will fudge the rpmdb (hech there's rpm-devel for that..)
> b) some worm will screw rpm itself
> 
> That's why with tripwire you're advised to store the checksums on a
> read-only media.

yeah this much I've realized.  I've already dealt with the joker deleting
the rpm binary, which can be undone by copying the binary from elsewhere.

LIDS is a step in the right direction - it's already being used in
production (sorry no details, hehe) and it can protect the rpmdb from being
touched from anything beside the legit rpm binary.  I suggest we all learn
this, or the other stuff like the Linux ACL's which I have not seen yet.




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