A new integrity checker software (open source) is available! But wait, it is not like the others, because it allows you to check the md5sum of your files against a remote database (acessible via web), making the monitoration of the files much more secure and simple, specially when you have more than one Unix system to protect. . . .. Syscheck Project Syscheck is an Open Source software that checks your files, specially binaries and configuration files, to see what has changed on your system. Syscheck monitors the size, c_time (change time) and the md5 checksum of all the specified files by the creation of a database (stored locally or remotely, via http) with all this information there. The great advantage of SysCheck is his capacity to access the files information remotely, making the monitoration of the files much more secure and simple, especially when you have more than one Unix system to protect. The link for this article located at ossec.net is no longer available. . Sysguardian is a publicly available utility designed to enhance the security of your Unix environments by verifying file integrity through remote database verifications.. File Integrity Checker, Open Source Security, Syscheck Monitoring, Unix File Protection. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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