Re: Anti-Rootkit app

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 10:38:37PM +0100, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
Hi all,

I need to install an anti-rootkid in a lot of servers. I know that
there're several options: tripwire, aide, chkrootkit...

?What do you prefer?

Obviously, I have to define my needs:

- easy setup and configuration
- actively developed

These needs are nice, but what effects do you want to achieve?

If you want to verify that nobody's loaded a rootkit, you can use
chkrootkit. Note that detecting a running rootkit is actively hard,
and is prone to failure.

If you want to verify that nobody has changed files on your system,
you can use a tripwire-like system. Mtree(1) actually includes
tripwire-like functionality, which I've used quite successfully in the
past.

I think that the latter is more realistic, but that's just my humble
opinion.

==ml

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