On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 07:14 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:49:07 +0100
> John Horne <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 17:08 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > > Greetings. 
> > > 
> > > With Fedora 17, Fedora is moving many top level dirs to their /usr
> > > equivalent. This causes a rkhunter false positive. On a 32bit
> > > install, /lib becomes a link to /usr/lib. There's a number of
> > > packages that put files in /usr/lib/java, but due to the symlink,
> > > rkhunter sees this as /lib/java/ which is a signature from some
> > > rootkit. ;( 
> > > 
> > > It would be nice if it could see if /lib is a link and bypass this
> > > test? Or if there was a way to whitelist this in config (currently
> > > there isn't). 
> > > 
> > Using 'RTKT_DIR_WHITELIST=/lib/java' will work (just tested it).
> > 
> > (Although I think we should be able to provide a better solution.)
> 
> Sadly that workaround only works for 32bit installs in Fedora... 
> 
> 64bit installs don't have the /lib/java dir (they have /lib64/java), so
> adding this results in a 'directory not found'. ;( 
> 
Hi,

Sorry for the delay in replying. Still thinking about this; made note to
self to look further into problem. I appreciate that F17 is due to be
released soon, so hopefully we'll get something sort out before then.




John.

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Plymouth University, UK      Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001

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