In a message dated 2/6/99 2:51:14 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > allows admins to prevent users from making incorrect modifications where > > they shouldn't be. > > Why aren't you setting permissions appropriately? > > Unlike MS DOS / Win, in Linux you can set files to be read-only to ordinary > users, or invisible altogether (inaccessible directories). This doesn't have anything to with my system, I'm just repoting on what tripwire does. I don't have permission problems, but a sysadmin might - considering he might have several users with root priveledges - or users with enough access to change certain important files. > > Actually, a simple version shouldn't be difficult at all - if you start > with the `find and diff' idea, but put a checksum next to each of the > files, then you'll have a list of files added, files removed and files > changed. For the changed files, you compare them with an archive version > using diff again. > You're right, this isn't a major undertaking - just trying to prevent dupication of code that might already be in existence. The find and diff idea is the exact approach I plan on using. -Jay