Bug#230769: RFP: integcheck -- a system integrity checker
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : integcheck
Version : 1.0.0
Upstream Author : Mathieu Roy <yeupou@gnu.org>
* URL or Web page : https://gna.org/projects/integcheck/
* License : GNU GPL
Description : a system integrity checker
Item check is written in Perl.
The idea is to check integrity of exposed systems by getting a list
of md5 of any important file via ssh, to keep this list on a pretty
safe system (a system that do not run any server publicly
available), and, finally, to compare everyday this list and with the
previous one.
As long as the system considered as safe is not compromised, it
should inform administrators of any changes on the others systems.
As others integrity checker, if its own components are corrupted, it
can be fooled. In others words, you cannot have a security policy
entirely relying on an integrity checker, and you should always do
manual checks regularly to be sure that the integrity checker is not
corrupted itself.
So what's the point of this tool, if you are still forced to do
manual checks? In fact, it is way faster to check integrity of
integcheck than integrity of the whole system.
On every system you want to monitor, you have to install the
integcheck-victim package, and on one computer, at least, you must
have to install the integheck-bobby package.
The integcheck-victim package provide a specific shell. The
integcheck-bobby provide cronjob and scripts to get and compare md5
list.
Integcheck is already packaged, using debconf, however the package
is not the cleanest possible and some documentation would probably
be a nice addition. If someone was willing to package integcheck for
Debian, we would gladly collaborate with him, by giving him write
access to the repository directly.
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Mathieu Roy
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