Remove random_seed spurious OSSEC alert on first install #2597
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ghost
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The random_seed file will change when GPG is used, this is part of the normal operations and there is nothing the sysadmin can do about it: there is no reason to keep it in syscheck.
It would also be possible to not use this file at all with --no-random-seed-file but this is a different topic.
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Description of Changes
Fixes #2596.
Changes proposed in this pull request:
random_seedspurious alert on first installTesting
make build-debsand provision stagingsyscheckOSSEC alerts related torandom_seedappear in/var/ossec/logs/alerts/alerts.logonmonDeployment
Changes will be deployed in the
securedrop-ossec-agentdebian package.Checklist
We have no testing for
syscheck(see: #2134) so either inspect the diff manually or follow the test plan.