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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:13:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: online cheksum verification for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20100311171304.312AF2B2126@mx5.roble.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100311120028.6778E10656B9@hub.freebsd.org>
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Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
>  I believe it would be highly desireable to have an online md5sum
> verification for FreeBSD as this is already implemented by checkroot

This is not difficult to do on a per-host basis using integrit, cron and
optionally md5 with mail, ftp or scp.

> (http://www.elstel.com/checkroot/) for openSUSE. This is often the only
> way to spot an intrusion.

Unlike SuSE and Solaris, FreeBSD is most often compiled on the local
host.   Wouldn't that make global checksums relatively useless?

Roger Marquis
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