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Re: snooper watchers


From: avalon () coombs anu edu au (Darren Reed)
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 12:27:30 +1100 (EDT)


[...]
Btw an easier attack is to just modify the script that regularly runs
tripwire, usually run from cron.

You really need to do a seperation of the checkee from the checkor.
If someone has root access on the machine, the could basicly do anything
that is needed to cover their tracks.

This is why manual checks should still be done, but this is not why
automatic checking should be given up.

                                     Tim N.

Something I was thinking of, what if you have two hosts, which don't
trust each other in any way, set them up to use a network filesystem
of sorts and run tripwire on the "other" host.  So for host A, tripwire
would run on host B and for host B, tripwire would run on host A.

darren



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