From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Sep 27 21:11:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.130.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 454B737B423 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:11:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.10.1/8.9.2) with SMTP id e8S4BYs84988 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:11:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <002301c02902$4061f990$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: Subject: Feature request for ports subsystem Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:12:00 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ stupidly posted to freebsd-questions by mistake by author ] > I've been pondering over ways to increase my ability to detect changes that > occur to my server. I frequently use the mtree files on the CD to detect > changes to the date/time, ownership and permissions of files that come with > FreeBSD, but don't really have a good way of verifying the applications that > are added via ports or packages. > > What I was wondering is if anyone has though about adding mtree support to > the ports subsystem? The existing PLIST system is good for determining the > files and directories that belong to a port/package, but don't provide > enough information for the purposes of security auditing. If an mtree file > was generated during the installation process of a port/package, then it > could be used to validate the installation of that port/package in the > future. > > I've been tinkering with this myself, but if anyone expresses more of an > interest, then I will try to make my contributions robust enough to become > part of the ports subsystem. > > -- > Matthew Emmerton > GSI Computer Services > +1 (800) 217 5409 (Canada) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message