On Tue, 27 Oct, 2009 at 05:00:19 +0000, Maura Monville wrote:
Anyway, in addition to the regular checks and tests they perform in these cases, I was asked whether there exists a system tool to verify the integrity of the system configuration.
Well: rpm --verify --all sort of does that. Problem would be that you really can't trust rpm of the running system, since you can't know if rpm, the database or any of the stuff rpm uses are compromised. But that pretty much goes for any/all systems; windows, *nix, whathavewe...
Basically they want to double check that all what is currently installed on my system, excluding my own applications, are regular SuSE updated packages rather than some malicious program, rootkit, and so on ...
The only way to be 'sure' would be to boot the system from some 'pristine' media (cd, dvd downloaded and burnt by a different system) and do the checks from there. hth /jon -- YMMV -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org