On Sat, 2018-11-10 at 16:43 -0500, Saul Jaffe wrote:
>
> The instructions I was following (from another website) said I had to do:
>
> sudo rkhunter --propupd
>
> next which gave the output:
>
> Invalid BINDIR configuration option: Invalid directory found: .
>
Hi,
I took a further look at this, and BINDIR is calculated when rkhunter is run.
(The 'configuration option' bit threw me.)
When BINDIR is checked it includes the root account PATH, and I suspect that in
that you have the current directory ('.') included. This is not a good idea,
and so rkhunter will object to it. (Use of '.' can allow programs to be run by
mistake.)
John.
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