[PLUG] Securing the Box

alan alan at clueserver.org
Wed Oct 6 22:42:02 UTC 2004


On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Russ Johnson wrote:

> Paul Johnson wrote:
> 
> >Either --force things, or use a distro that uses apt on a packaging
> >system that has decent dependency checking...
> >  
> >
> As explained in other posts, the results Bill was seeing are correct, 
> and the dependency checking is absolutely correct as well.
> 
> It was simply a matter of needing some instruction on how to install. 
> Specifying both RPMs on the command line resolved the issue.
> 
> Nothing wrong with the package manager there. It was doing exactly as it 
> was designed to do.

On a hacked system you also have to be aware of the "immutable" flag.

--force does not overwrite when that flag is set. (Not a Redhat problem. 
The filesystem is supposed to do that.  Debian does the same thing.)

"find" does not seem to have an option for finding extended attributes in 
an ext2/3 filesystem.  lsattr will do it, but is kind of brute force.  
(i.e. it gives you a lot of crap you do not need.)





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