At 5:33 PM +0000 12/11/05, James Wilkinson wrote:
>Michael A. Peters wrote:
>> Sun use to (still does?) allow you to enter an md5sum and it would tell
>> you exactly what file it matched, along with what patch level.
>
>Ralf Corsepius replied:
>> rpm based systems have "rpm {-V|--verify}", which provide a comparable
>> feature.
>
>Unfortunately, this is pretty useless if you can't trust the RPM
>database.
>
>And on a compromised machine, you can't trust the RPM database.
>
>And, unfortunately, prelinking means that you can't even compare them to
>a "known good" machine.
You can use the RPM database from that machine, as RPM knows to "unprelink"
before doing its checks.
Or you can unprelink everything yourself. man prelink
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