checking install

[Bill Earl]

I think tripwire will complain in its reports when permissions are changed
on files that it's keeping track of.

Bill


> moin, moin,
>
> another vendor's restore mechanism appears to have changed perms on
several
> binaries to 777. Not a good thing.
>
> Opportunity, however, to learn how to verify and fix an install.
>
> debsums will check to see if file contents have changed. Well, the md5sum
is
> still the same as only the perms have changed.
>
> There are more tools I'm not finding. I don't see anything in the man
pages
> for dpkg or apt-get. There might not be a tool to just check perms. I
> remember a couple of years ago when someone wanted to start logging what
> perms should be.
>
> Anyone know of a beast that'll check perms for debian?
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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