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Binary Security & md5sums



We run md5sums on all system binaries on our Debian servers and tar the actual 
binaries to a file and then burn everything to CD with other data about the 
server for security reasons. Do any other Debian users do this? Is it worth 
the effort? Is this too paranoid?

Below are the commands we use to do this:

cd /bin
md5sum * | mail -s "md5sums on pine from bin" admis@email.edu
tar cvzpf bin.tar.gz && mv bin.tar.gz /root



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