Tripwire in bin-directory?

2000-05-24 Thread Thomas Guettler
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! I think this should be changed. What do you think? -- Thomas Guettler

Re: Tripwire in bin-directory?

2000-05-24 Thread Zak Kipling
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

Re: Tripwire in bin-directory?

2000-05-24 Thread Thomas Guettler
Zak Kipling wrote: 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

Re: Tripwire in bin-directory?

2000-05-24 Thread ago
Hi ! 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

Re: Tripwire in bin-directory?

2000-05-24 Thread Alexander Hvostov
Hi, Um, you don't need a kernel patch for that. Just the immutable bit and the `lcap' program/package to make that immutable bit permanent. (Of course you will need to set immutability on inittab and anything called from there, so that it can't be changed during boot, allowing the script kiddie

Re: Tripwire in bin-directory?

2000-05-24 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 03:10:48PM +0200, Thomas Guettler wrote: this is not unlikely, that's the way it should be according to the READMEs. Oops, forgot that I wrote it down there. :-) With ztripwire the database and the binaries fit onto a 1.44MB floppy, which But only if your database is

Re: Tripwire in bin-directory?

2000-05-24 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:40:11PM +0100, Zak Kipling wrote: 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. Well, that was the

Re: Tripwire in bin-directory?

2000-05-24 Thread Thomas Guettler
Michael Meskes wrote: On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 03:10:48PM +0200, Thomas Guettler wrote: this is not unlikely, that's the way it should be according to the READMEs. Oops, forgot that I wrote it down there. :-) ah, you are the maintainer of it. Cool. BTW there is a typo in ztripwire, which

Re: Tripwire in bin-directory?

2000-05-24 Thread Ted Cabeen
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas Guettler writes: Michael Meskes wrote: With ztripwire the database and the binaries fit onto a 1.44MB floppy, which But only if your database is rather small. I ran out of space sometimes. yes, i exclude /home and /dev and directories containing docu.