Bug#655055: rkhunter: a couple of (debian specific?) warnings

Julien Valroff julien at debian.org
Sun Jan 8 08:27:49 UTC 2012


Hi Karl,

Le dimanche 08 janv. 2012 à 06:56:21 (+0100 CET), Karl Goetz a écrit :
> Package: rkhunter
> Version: 1.3.6-4
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hi,
> I've got a couple of comments after running rkhunter, hopefully you'll
> agree they are bugs :)
> 
> * it warns that /sbin/chkconfig has been replaced by a script, but its
>   shipped as a (perl) script in debian. Could this be included in
>   SCRIPTWHITELIST please?

chkconfig is not widely used on Debian and the default rkhunter
configuration should take this into account. I would hence avoid adding this
even as a commented example.

> * With etckeeper becoming popular, could the config example include
>   /etc/.etckeeper and /etc/.{git,bzr}ignore as comments in
>   ALLOWHIDDENDIR and ALLOWHIDDENFILE?

I have added them as comments in the default configuration file.

Cheers,
Julien

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