From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 7 17:42:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0EE37B419 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 17:42:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.131.254.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.131.254] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16CWVP-0006YV-00; Fri, 07 Dec 2001 17:42:20 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fB81gHq20773; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 17:42:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 17:42:17 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Haikal Saadh Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tripwire questions. Message-ID: <20011207174217.W8975@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <000701c17ee0$e45ae220$d8c801ca@warhawk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000701c17ee0$e45ae220$d8c801ca@warhawk>; from wyldephyre2@yahoo.com on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:34:44AM +0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:34:44AM +0500, Haikal Saadh wrote: > Hi, I just installed tripwire, but with the out of the box config, the > hashes files 5.7megs...way too much to put on a floppy. So does that > mean that > a. I did something wrong, > b. I should trim my list of things to hash? c. I should compress it with [bg]zip(1)? > Also, how safe is it to just set the immutable flag on the database > file? (Not very, I'm thinking, if an attacker gains root, right?) That depends on if you are running at an elevated securelevel(8) or not. Generally speaking, a floppy with the read-write tab flipped out is a great solution. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message