How to Check Integrity of File and Directory Using "AIDE" in Linux | Linux Today

How to Check Integrity of File and Directory Using “AIDE” in Linux

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Aaron Kili
Nov 30, 2017

Tecmint: AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a small yet powerful, free open source intrusion detection tool, that uses predefined rules to check file and directory integrity in Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. It is an independent static binary for simplified client/server monitoring configurations.

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Aaron Kili

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