02-09-2017
If you update the file to insert the correct checksum, then that will change the checksum for the next run. You would be extremely unlikely to ever be able to guess the checksum and be able to put it in the script.
You could consider:-
- Change the permissions
- Have the script read a file holding the checksum
- Use and IDS as zaxxon suggests
- Regularly checksum your code and compare to the previous run
Of course, all of these can be bypassed by someone with appropriate authority, so it comes down to a question of who is trusted and only granting access to those you can trust. A script that can be read can be copied and adjusted before running the local copy anyway, if the user has the authority to do so, so you should be thinking of denying all access except where you are comfortable granting it.
Making the scripts' permissions as
rwx --- --- and having a
sudo rule to allow specific people to execute it may be the way to go.
I hope that this gives you some ideas to ponder further.
Robin
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gelf_checksum
GELF_CHECKSUM(3) BSD Library Functions Manual GELF_CHECKSUM(3)
NAME
elf32_checksum, elf64_checksum, gelf_checksum -- return the checksum of an ELF object
LIBRARY
ELF Access Library (libelf, -lelf)
SYNOPSIS
#include <libelf.h>
long
elf32_checksum(Elf *elf);
long
elf64_checksum(Elf *elf);
#include <gelf.h>
long
gelf_checksum(Elf *elf);
DESCRIPTION
These functions return a simple checksum of the ELF object described by their argument elf. The checksum is computed in way that allows its
value to remain unchanged in presence of modifications to the ELF object by utilities like strip(1).
Function elf32_checksum() returns a checksum for an ELF descriptor elf of class ELFCLASS32.
Function elf64_checksum() returns a checksum for an ELF descriptor elf of class ELFCLASS64.
Function gelf_checksum() provides a class-independent way retrieving the checksum for ELF object elf.
RETURN VALUES
These functions return the checksum of the ELF object, or zero in case an error was encountered.
ERRORS
These functions may fail with the following errors:
[ELF_E_ARGUMENT] Argument elf was NULL.
[ELF_E_ARGUMENT] Argument elf was not a descriptor for an ELF file.
[ELF_E_ARGUMENT] The ELF descriptor elf was not opened for reading or updating.
[ELF_E_CLASS] For functions elf32_checksum() and elf64_checksum(), ELF descriptor elf did not match the class of the called function.
[ELF_E_HEADER] The ELF object specified by argument elf had a malformed executable header.
[ELF_E_RESOURCE] An out of memory condition was detected during processing.
[ELF_E_SECTION] The ELF object specified by argument elf contained a section with a malformed section header.
[ELF_E_VERSION] The ELF object was of an unsupported version.
SEE ALSO
strip(1), elf(3), gelf(3)
BSD
August 29, 2006 BSD