How to keep track of the serverconfiguration: keep entire "/etc" in git

Question

I want to keep my whole /etc folder in a git repository to track unauthorised changes by intruders and find out mistakes I could have done myself.

What would be the right way to achieve this?

Answer 1

http://aymanh.com/version-control-linux-configuration-files-etc-etckeeper

Have a look at the above ... I was looking along the same....

Hope that helps

Answer 2

Look into etckeeper, there have been packages of it for Debian/Ubuntu for some time now, and likely packages are available for other distributions as well.