On Wed, 24 May 2000, Thomas Guettler wrote: > Isn't it a security risk, that there > is a shellscript in bin that executes /usr/lib/tripwire. > If someone breaks into my system, he/she could > change the file in bin to something that always > reports that nothing was changed!
If someone breaks into your system, he/she could change /usr/lib/tripwire itself... isn't this just as much of a problem, except in the unlikely event that /usr/lib is hardware write-protected while /bin is not. -- Zak Kipling, Girton College, Cambridge, England. "As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist." -- M. K. Gandhi