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SYNOPSIS
       checksecurity

DESCRIPTION
       The  checksecurity  command  runs  a  small collection of simple system
       checks which are designed  to  catch  a  few  common  security  issues.
       checksecurity is run by cron in a daily basis.

CONFIGURATION
       The  checksecurity.conf  file  defines several configuration variables:
       MAILTO, CHECK_DISKFREE, CHECK_PASSWD and CHECK_SETUID LOGDIR.  Each  is
       described below.

       The  checksecurity program works with a collection of plugins which are
       located in /usr/share/checksecurity and are configured individually  by
       their own configuration file.

       CHECK_PASSWD  If  this is set to TRUE then the check-passwd script will
       be invoked.  This script is designed to  report  upon  system  accounts
       which  have  no  passwords.  CHECK_DISKFREE If this is set to TRUE then
       the check-diskfree script will be invoked and will allow an alert to be
       sent  if there is any mounted partition is running short on disk space.
       CHECK_SETUID If this is set to TRUE then the check-setuid  script  will
       be  invoked,  this  will compare the setuid binaries upon the system to
       those that existed previously and show the differences.

FILES
       /etc/checksecurity.conf
              checksecurity configuration file


SEE-ALSO
       See also check-diskfree(8), check-setuid(8), and check-passwd(8)



Debian Linux                    2 February 1997               CHECKSECURITY(8)
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