Root Kit Hunter, aka “rkhunter” is a great little utility for *nix based systems that will check for known vulnerabilities and backdoors installed on a Linux box, otherwise know as “root kits”.
Once you install it, simply “su root”, then try running it with the following arguments:
$ rkhunter –checkall –createlogfile
Process only took about 5 minutes on my system, and gave me one warning (I won’t say what so none of you try to hack my machine).
Dutch Rapley
May 3, 2005 at 1:50 pm
That’s pretty cool. Do you run that in conjunction with chkrootkit (http://www.chkrootkit.org/)?
chovy
May 3, 2005 at 2:41 pm
haven’t seen that one yet. But if it’s open source and available for Linux I’d recommend it.