On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 11:07 -0500, Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> I, too, got a fp regarding hdparm 
> in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.  At least in my CentOS 
> systems, the hdparm directives seem to be 
> defaults.  I've implemented the suggestion by 
> John Horne that I  
> add "RTKT_FILE_WHITELIST="/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit" 
> in rkhunter.conf.  However, by the mere fact that 
> rc.sysinit is checked by rkunter as a place where 
> rootkits might cause issues makes me uneasy about 
> whitelisting that file in its entirety.  Is there 
> no way to deal just with the hdparm part of this 
> issue?
> 
>From the rkhunter.conf file:

  # NOTE: It is recommended that if you whitelist any files, then you
  # include those files in the file properties check. See the
  # USER_FILEPROP_FILES_DIRS configuration option.



John.

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John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK
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