James Harper <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need something that can scan my network for Linux machines and then log in
> to anything it can find and check configs to make sure everything is set up
> correctly, eg things like that ssh settings are correct, smartd is
> configured and enabled (if physical machine), no blank passwords,
> permissions on sensitive config files, etc. This is more of an automatic
> check of the install process than a tripwire to check for malicious
> reconfiguration (I just found a machine with a failed harddisk on which I
> hadn't enabled smartd!)
> 
> What's out there? 'baseline config' is a term I'm more used to hearing in
> the windows world so maybe I'm googling on the wrong keywords...

I haven't heard of any such tool (but I'm not into system administration
heavily).

The practice that I have heard of is to use cfengine or puppet to configure
all of the machines instead of doing so manually. As I understand it, you can
write rules which ensure that certain packages are installed everywhere and
(crucially for your scenario) that certain configuration options are set.

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