veriexecctl(8)
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VERIEXECCTL(8) NetBSD System Manager's Manual VERIEXECCTL(8)
NAME
veriexecctl -- load or report veriexec fingerprints
SYNOPSIS
veriexecctl load signatures
veriexecctl delete [file | mount_point]
veriexecctl query file
DESCRIPTION
The veriexecctl command is used to manipulate the Veriexec feature. Ver-
iexec must have been configured into the booted kernel for this commaned
to work.
Commands
load signatures Load the fingerprint entries contained in
signatures into the in kernel tables. This
operation is only available if kern.ver-
iexec.strict is zero. Once loaded the kernel
can then validate executed programs or files
against the loaded fingerprints and report
when fingerprints do not match.
delete [file | mount_point]
Delete the specified file from the Veriexec
table in which it is stored. If the argument
is a mount_point (or a directory), the device
id for it is fetched and the entire Veriexec
table that refers to it is removed.
query file Query Veriexec about information associated
with file: Filename, mount, fingerprint, fin-
gerprint algorithm, evaluation status, and
entry type.
Signatures
The signatures file contains lines of fields (separated by one or more
whitespace characters) of the form:
path type fingerprint options
Where path is the full path to the file (spaces, tabs, etc. can be
escaped if prefixed with a backslash) and type is the type of fingerprint
used, see above for the default list. Other fingerprints may be avail-
able depending on kernel configuration. The fingerprint field is a hexa-
decimal representation of the fingerprint for the file. The field
options contains the associated options for the file. Currently there
are eight valid options, five of which are aliases to improve readability
of the database files:
DIRECT Allow direct execution only.
INDIRECT If this option is set then the executable cannot be invoked
directly, it can only be used as an interpreter in scripts.
FILE Indicates that the fingerprint is associated with a file,
not an executable. Files have their fingerprints verified
during open(2) and are automatically made read only. This
option may be used to verify shared libraries have not been
tampered with.
PROGRAM An alias for DIRECT, allow direct execution only.
INTERPRETER An alias for INDIRECT, the executable may only be used as
an interpreter for scripts.
SCRIPT The file is a script. For correct operation of veriexec, a
script must have both FILE and DIRECT attributes set. This
option is a shorthand way of setting the options for cor-
rect operation of scripts.
LIBRARY The file is a library, this option is an alias for FILE and
INDIRECT.
UNTRUSTED This option is used to indicate that the file is located on
untrusted storage, and its fingerprint should not be
cached, but calculated each time it is accessed and when
pages with this file as backing store are paged in.
There must be only one executable/fingerprint pair per line. Comments
are indicated by the first character of a line being a `#' character.
Multiple options can be combined using a `,' character. If no options
are specified, both direct and indirect execution are implied.
FILES
/dev/veriexec veriexec device node
/etc/signatures default signatures file
SEE ALSO
veriexec(4), veriexecgen(8)
HISTORY
veriexecctl first appeared in NetBSD 2.0.
NOTES
veriexecctl requires the kernel to have been configured with the
``veriexec'' pseudo-device.
NetBSD 4.0 November 29, 2006 NetBSD 4.0
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