online cheksum verification for FreeBSD
Roger Marquis
marquis at roble.com
Thu Mar 11 17:13:04 UTC 2010
Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
> I believe it would be highly desireable to have an online md5sum
> verification for FreeBSD as this is already implemented by checkroot
This is not difficult to do on a per-host basis using integrit, cron and
optionally md5 with mail, ftp or scp.
> (http://www.elstel.com/checkroot/) for openSUSE. This is often the only
> way to spot an intrusion.
Unlike SuSE and Solaris, FreeBSD is most often compiled on the local
host. Wouldn't that make global checksums relatively useless?
Roger Marquis
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