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About rsec

rsec is a suite of scripts that handle security reporting. Essentially, rsec is the little brother of Mandriva's msec utility in that all rsec does is reporting; it does not change anything on the system whatsoever. The daily security checks you may be familiar with from msec are what make up rsec.

The components of rsec are some shellscripts that are called via /etc/cron.hourly and /etc/cron.daily. rsec is a passive reporting system, there is very little a system's administrator needs to do other than view the reports.

The configuration file of rsec is /etc/security/rsec.conf. There are many options that can be configured, see the rsec(8) manpage for more details.

Authors

rsec is based on the Mandriva tool msec originally written by Yoann Vandoorselaere and then re-written by Frederic Lepied. rsec was forked from msec, and is currently maintained, by Vincent Danen.