Bug#298573: O: checksecurity -- basic system security checks
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I intend to orphan the checksecurity package, honestly I've done a bad
job of looking after it. It deserves a better keeper and I've not had
much success at getting a co-maintainer for it.
The package description is:
Checksecurity does some very basic system security checks, such as
looking for changes in which programs have setuid permissions, and that
remote filesystems are not allowed to have runnable setuid programs.
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Note that these are not to be considered in any way complete, and
you should not rely on checksecurity to actually provide any useful
information concerning the security or vulnerability of your system.
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The lockfile-progs package is only a "Suggests" because of the poor
way that dselect handles "Recommends", but I do strongly suggest that
you install it; it prevents /etc/cron.daily/standard from running multiple
times if something gets jammed.
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Checksecurity was previously part of the cron package.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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