Re: I'm afraid I've been cracked.
Steve Juranich <sjuranic@kant.ee.washington.edu> writes:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> > check the binaries tooo...
> > top, ps, ls, last, w, who, netstat, passwd, login, etc...
> >
>
> Please remember that you're speaking to a recent convert from Mandrake.
> There, all I would have to do would be 'rpm -V `which top`' and rpm would
> tell me if the md5sum had been changed from the original package. Does dpkg
> have a similar funcitonality? I couldn't find mention of it in the man page.
>
> Right now I'm fiddling with md5sum, but if I understand correctly, that only
> tells me the md5sum of the current file, it can't verify that the md5 sum is
> "correct" (goes back to the "it's smart, not magic" argument).
bash$ man debsums
bash$ dpkg --search `which top`
procps: /usr/bin/top
bash$ debsums -s procps
Any output could be a problem. Of course this assumes that the listed
md5sums have not been tampered with. They are in /var/lib/dpkg/info.
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Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development
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