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- Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
- From: shabbir@panix.com (Shabbir J. Safdar)
- Subject: Chkacct v1.3 now available.
- Message-ID: <C5Fpro.GL@panix.com>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 18:23:47 GMT
-
- Chkacct v1.3 is now available from
-
- ftp.cs.purdue.edu:/pub/pcert/tools/unix/chkacct.tar.Z
-
- Attached below are two forms of verification, a sum(1) from chkacct.tar
- and a detached signature of chkacct.tar I made with PGP. If you want
- to check the integrity of the signature, you can get my PGP public key
- by finger'ing my account shabbir@sun.panix.com, or by checking one of the
- PGP mail-key-services. Also attached below is a section from the
- README file about chkacct.
-
- ### Before checking signature, be sure to uncompress chkacct.tar.Z
-
- Here is a signature from chkacct.tar. To check it, use:
-
- pgp chkacct.tar.asc chkacct.tar
-
- where chkacct.tar.asc contains the following signature.
-
- -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
- Version: 2.1
-
- owEBmABn/4kAlQIFACvIk4ruFU/YNemM1QEBfawEAJS61q/efJ0DyOwJ27W1mU3u
- D/or/O5a5B/NA8Yt65mn+cIKqvHzSX8DtU1S+SGZcf75/+PjLnsA1E2mktNz4vBh
- abjK/e4lOmXaT1JFE8h4hNjpSCbDNUp0LVCvOnwjkSEFYZCiDFb/iuUDJMP2YHCU
- wrWz1JQ6AZ8EUEF3SC42
- =Mmdt
- -----END PGP MESSAGE-----
-
- Here is the output of sum(1) for ckhacct.tar. To check it, use
-
- $ sum chkacct.tar
-
- Output: 41849 112
-
- ========================================================================
-
- This is chkacct v1.3:
-
- Chkacct is a tool that allows someone to check the security of their
- account without necessarily having a lot of Unix expertise to draw
- upon. It is useful to Unix novices and gurus alike (because we all
- overlook permissions eventually). For novices, it can be run
- periodically to check file permissions and to fix them. For gurus, it
- can be run out of a crontab in "harmless" mode and the output mailed to
- you. This will allow you to handle all the problems yourself.
-
- Chkacct checks your home directory for some important "dot" files as
- well as looks throughout your entire home directory for world writable
- files. It always provides helpful information files that can assist
- the Unix novice with new concepts such as file permissions and file
- ownership.
-
-