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verify the root filesystem of an openSUSE installation

From:  Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb-AT-yahoo.de>
To:  opensuse-security-announce-AT-opensuse.org, opensuse-announce-AT-opensuse.org, opensuse-features-AT-opensuse.org, opensuse-testing-AT-opensuse.org, opensuse-edu-AT-opensuse.org
Subject:  [opensuse-announce] verify the root filesystem of an Opensuse installation
Date:  Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:01:23 +0100
Message-ID:  <4A4CAFA3.9040800@yahoo.de>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

  Here is the first beta version of a brand new security tool:
'checkroot' is the first tool to retrieve fingerprint/gpg-pubkey updates
online and therefore allows a trusted verification of your root file
system roughly based on rpm --verify. Not even debsums can do that.
download: http://wwwu.edu.uni-klu.ac.at/estellnb/checkroot/

  It can serve as a pre-replacement for feature #306508:
https://features.opensuse.org/306508.
  Besides this it may be a good example for the usage of private/public
gpg keys (edu-purposes).
  Feedback welcome. Further testing required.


Elmar Stellnberger
Michael Schroeder



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