Is there a good checksum system for OPENBSD?
SirStargazer
rrodrig743 at earthlink.net
Mon Nov 4 01:35:36 EST 2002
Man mtree, with emphasis on the "Examples" portion.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John D." <lists at webcrunchers.com>
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Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 10:27 PM
Subject: Is there a good checksum system for OPENBSD?
> I'm looking for a Program that compares md5 file checksums in a file
against actual files and reports discrepancies. A commercial program like
"Tripwire" does this, but isn't there an Open Source program that can do
this.
>
> It would be a good thing to use for files in the /bin directories, and
other places where one would not expect files to be changed, but would
easily identify trojans, and other changes to executeable files and
binaries.
>
> I suppose it wouldn't be that hard to write this in Python or Perl. But
how long would it take to checksum thousands of files?
>
> John
>
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