Re: Is there a good checksum system for OPENBSD?

[Greg <openbsd@petrasfamily.com>]

Or you could use File System Saint...

http://www.insecure.dk/fss/

Greg

Quoting Marco Peereboom <slash@peereboom.us>:

> The other day there was an article in onlamp about this very question.
> 
> See: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html?page=2
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John D." <lists@webcrunchers.com>
> To: <list@dshield.org>
> Cc: <python-list@python.org>; <tech@openbsd.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 00:27
> Subject: Is there a good checksum system for OPENBSD?
> 
> 
> > I'm looking for a Program that compares md5 file checksums in a file
> against actual files and reports discrepancies.   A commercial program like
> "Tripwire" does this,  but isn't there an Open Source program that can do
> this.
> >
> > It would be a good thing to use for files in the /bin directories,  and
> other places where one would not expect files to be changed,   but would
> easily identify trojans,  and other changes to executeable files and
> binaries.
> >
> > I suppose it wouldn't be that hard to write this in Python or Perl.   But
> how long would it take to checksum thousands of files?
> >
> > John