Re: ANNOUNCE: chkwtmp, a wtmp intrusion detection anaylzer (Linu

Byron COLLIE (ccbyron@cc.uq.edu.au)
Mon, 26 May 1997 08:07:53 +0011

Hi

You should maybe check the net for these types of utilities first....

Cheers
Byron

chkwtmp - check wtmp-file for overwritten information

Copyright (c) DFN-CERT, Univ. of Hamburg 1994

Univ. Hamburg, Dept. of Computer Science
DFN-CERT
Vogt-Koelln-Strasse 30
22527 Hamburg
Germany

This program is free software; you can distribute it and/or modify
it as long as you retain the DFN-CERT copyright statement.

It can be obtained via anonymous FTP from
ftp://ftp.cert.dfn.de/pub/tools/admin/chkwtmp/chkwtmp.tar.Z

This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without the
IMPLIED WARRANTY of merchantability or fitness for a particular
purpose.

This package contains:
README
MANIFEST
chkwtmp.1
chkwtmp.c
chkwtmp.txt

To create chkwtmp under SunOS 4.x, type:
% cc -o chkwtmp chkwtmp.c

To run chkwtmp you need read permission on the file /var/adm/wtmp.
Normally this file is world-readable and no special privileges are
required to run the checker.

The following is an example of the output of chkwtmp.

Running chkwtmp on a machine with deleted wtmp-entries, under
csh(1):

% chkwtmp
1 deletion(s) between Thu Sep 29 08:23:57 1994 and Thu Sep 29
14:11:58 1994 %

Running chkwtmp on a machine with no deleted wtmp-entries, under
csh(1):

% chkwtmp
%