Hi,
On 12/03/2011 07:02 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
why are permanently with updates introduced new hidden folders
in /etc which let alerting "rkhunter"? openjdk is only a recent
example, but happended often in the last years with several packages
[harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ ls -lha /etc/.java/
insgesamt 20K
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4,0K 2011-12-01 16:20 .
drwxr-xr-x. 144 root root 12K 2011-12-02 20:14 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K 2011-11-28 20:21 .systemPrefs
---------------------- Start Rootkit Hunter Scan ----------------------
Warning: Hidden directory found: /etc/.java
For openjdk, I added this 'fix' to address bug 741821 [1]. You can look
at the bug for details, but essentially this is just making explicit
what the software was expecting (or using) all along.
You are right that the hidden directories are a bad idea, but this is
what the code in openjdk6 uses and we are (sort of) stuck with this -
mostly because of backwards compatibility. Going forwards, I agree that
we should fix this properly by using non-hidden directories, but this
would probably be done only in the openjdk8 time frame.
Cheers,
Omair
[1]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741821