Package: checksecurity (2.0.14)

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basic system security checks

Checksecurity does some very basic system security checks, such as looking for changes in which programs have setuid permissions, and that remote filesystems are not allowed to have runnable setuid programs.

Note that these are not to be considered in any way complete, and you should not rely on checksecurity to actually provide any useful information concerning the security or vulnerability of your system.

The lockfile-progs package is only a "Suggests" because of the poor way that dselect handles "Recommends", but I do strongly suggest that you install it; it prevents /etc/cron.daily/standard from running multiple times if something gets jammed.

Checksecurity was previously part of the cron package.

Tags: Implemented in: Perl, User Interface: Command Line, Role: Program, Scope: Utility, Security: Intrusion Detection, Purpose: Scanning

Other Packages Related to checksecurity

• dep: cron (>= 3.0pl1-74)

  process scheduling daemon
  also a virtual package provided by bcron-run

  or anacron

  cron-like program that doesn't go by time

  or fcron

  cron-like scheduler with extended capabilities

• dep: debconf (>= 0.5)

  Debian configuration management system

  or debconf-2.0

  virtual package provided by cdebconf, cdebconf-udeb, debconf

• dep: perl (>= 5.8.0)

  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language

• dep: util-linux (>= 2.15~rc1-1)

  Miscellaneous system utilities

• rec: logcheck

  mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the administrator

• rec: tiger

  Report system security vulnerabilities

• rec: tripwire

  file and directory integrity checker

  or integrit

  A file integrity verification program

  or aide

  Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment - static binary

  or samhain

  Data integrity and host intrusion alert system

  or fcheck

  IDS filesystem baseline integrity checker

• sug: apt-watch

  Applet that monitors apt sources for upgrades (transitional package)

  or cron-apt

  automatic update of packages using apt-get

• sug: lockfile-progs

  Programs for locking and unlocking files and mailboxes

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