[Chester LUG] worried - hacked?

[Michael Crilly]

Sorry Dave, I've completely misunderstood.

I'm not to sure to be honest, as the packages are checked as they're
downloaded, I believe. I'll certainly look into it.


On 5/22/08, David Holden <dh at iucr.org> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 22 May 2008, Michael Crilly wrote:
> > Well, I once installed an RPM on a deb based system. The reinstallation
> of
> > the OS was the fun part.
> >
> > On 5/22/08, David Holden <dh at iucr.org> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Michael Crilly wrote:
> > > > Debian/Ubuntu is a deb based system, not an RPM based system as I'm
> > > > sure you know. Try synaptic, aptitude and or apt-get (the man pages,
> > > > that is)
> > >
> > > err yeh, that why I was asking..
> > >
> > >
> > > dave.
> > >
>
>
> hmm, to clarify, Paul's worry was about being hacked, for those that don't
> know rpm, "rpm -Va" verifies installed packages for owners/groups,
> permissions, md5 sums, dependencies, modification times etc, assuming the
> rpm
> system has not also been compromised this can be quite useful in spotting
> changes to a system, so I'm wondering does anyone know if apt-get/dpkg etc
> has something equivalent.
>
> cheers,
>
> Dave.
>
>
>
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