Package: rkhunter
Version: N/A
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Debian maintainer,
On Sunday, November 04, 2007, I notified you of the beginning of a review
process
concerning debconf templates for rkhunter.
The debian-l10n-english contributors have now reviewed these templates,
and the proposed changes are attached to this bug report.
Please review the suggested changes are suggested, and if you have any
objections, let me know in the next 3 days.
Please try to avoid uploading rkhunter with these changes right now.
The second phase of this process will begin on Friday, November 23, 2007, when
I will
coordinate updates to translations of debconf templates.
The existing translators will be notified of the changes: they will
receive an updated PO file for their language.
Simultaneously, a general call for new translations will be sent to
the debian-i18n mailing list.
Both these calls for translations will request updates to be sent as
individual bug reports. That will probably trigger a lot of bug
reports against your package, but these should be easier to deal with.
The call for translation updates and new translations will run until
about Friday, December 14, 2007. Please avoid uploading a package with fixed or
changed
debconf templates and/or translation updates in the meantime. Of
course, other changes are safe.
Please note that this is an approximative delay, which depends on my
own availability to process this work and is influenced by the fact
that I simultaneously work on many packages.
Around Saturday, December 15, 2007, I will contact you again and will send a
final patch
summarizing all the updates (changes to debconf templates,
updates to debconf translations and new debconf translations).
Again, thanks for your attention and cooperation.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
--- rkhunter.old/debian/templates 2007-10-30 21:29:05.577953562 +
+++ rkhunter/debian/templates 2007-11-20 19:32:48.35736 +
@@ -1,22 +1,32 @@
+# These templates have been reviewed by the debian-l10n-english
+# team
+#
+# If modifications/additions/rewording are needed, please ask
+# [EMAIL PROTECTED] for advice.
+#
+# Even minor modifications require translation updates and such
+# changes should be coordinated with translators and reviewers.
+
Template: rkhunter/cron_daily_run
Type: boolean
-_Description: Activate daily run?
- Choose this option if you want rkhunter to be run automatically
- via cron.daily.
+_Description: Activate daily run of rkhunter?
+ If you choose this option, rkhunter will be run automatically
+ by a daily cron job.
Template: rkhunter/cron_db_update
Type: boolean
-_Description: Activate weekly database update?
- Choose this option if you want rkhunter databases to be
- updated automatically via cron.weekly.
+_Description: Activate weekly update of rkhunter's databases?
+ If you choose this option, rkhunter databases will be
+ updated automatically by a weekly cron job.
Template: rkhunter/apt_autogen
Type: boolean
Default: false
-_Description: Update file properties database automatically?
- rkhunter can be configured so that the file properties database
- is updated automatically by apt.
- Default is not to enable this feature as the file properties
- database update can be slow on some older or low-resource systems.
- Even if enabled, the database won't be updated by apt if the
+_Description: Automatically update rkhunter's file properties database?
+ The file properties database can be updated automatically
+ by the package management system.
+ .
+ This feature is not enabled by default as
+ database updates may be slow on low-end machines.
+ Even if it is enabled, the database won't be updated if the
'hashes' test is disabled in rkhunter configuration.
--- rkhunter.old/debian/control 2007-10-30 21:29:05.577953562 +
+++ rkhunter/debian/control 2007-11-20 19:32:50.857206144 +
@@ -13,17 +13,17 @@
Recommends: libmd5-perl, binutils, wget | curl | links | elinks | lynx, iproute
Suggests: mailx
Description: rootkit, backdoor, sniffer and exploit scanner
- Rootkit Hunter scans your system for known and unknown rootkits,
+ Rootkit Hunter scans systems for known and unknown rootkits,
backdoors, sniffers and exploits.
.
- Some of the tests it does:
- - MD5 hash compare
- - Look for default files used by rootkits
- - Wrong file permissions for binaries
- - Look for suspected strings in LKM and KLD modules
- - Look for hidden files
- - Optional scan within plaintext and binary files
+ It checks for:
+ - MD5 hash changes;
+ - files commonly created by rootkits;
+ - executables with anomalous file permissions;
+ - suspicious strings in kernel modules;
+ - hidden files in system
