On Wed, 09 May 2012 04:08:06 +0530, Carlos E. R.
<robin_listas@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> I do not know for sure, I’m not a real security expert. But I’m afraid.
> If I saw such a change in my system I would be very scared.
really depends on the circumstances, what this machine is used for, by
whom, and how disastrous it would be if it was seriously compromised. i
could take the decision to gamble for myself (at home, not at work), but
wouldn’t want to recommend that to others.
not knowing anything more, it’s probably the best advise to give:
reinstall. will certainly be faster and less painful than checking all the
packages, specially with rkhunter’s not being adjusted to systemd very
well yet, so it’s spewing false positives and warnings every day, at least
it does for me.
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phani.
On Tue, 08 May 2012 22:43:06 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2012-05-09 00:09, Jim Henderson wrote:
>
>> I’d also be inclined to run rkhunter as well as using RPM to verify
>> each installed package on the system. Takes a little knowledge to do
>> the latter and properly ignore changes that are valid (like
>> configuration file changes in some cases).
>
> Another possibility is “rpm -qa --verify”, but the resulting list needs
> interpretation.
True, that is an option I often forget. 
It looks like that also does dependency checking and a few other things
as well, which is good. The -V option doesn’t do that AFAIK.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
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@Phanisvara: thanks suggesting that because, I do frequent online banking.
@others: Okay, now i am clear that something terrible happened to my sudo. AFAIK, I did do nothing to it. So, how to fix it? I mean I will opt for a fresh install of sudo. but how can I perform that?
Anish
On 2012-05-09 15:36, thinkanish wrote:
> @others: Okay, now i am clear that something terrible happened to my
> sudo. AFAIK, I did do nothing to it. So, how to fix it? I mean I will
> opt for a fresh install of sudo. but how can I perform that?
Fire up yast, search for the package sudo, tell it to upgrade (to the same
version), which is a reinstall.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)