How to Check Integrity With AIDE in Fedora | Linux Today

How to Check Integrity With AIDE in Fedora

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Aaron Kili
Jan 29, 2019

Tecmint: AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a program for checking the integrity of a file and directory on any modern Unix-like system. It creates a database of files on the system, and then uses that database as a yardstick to ensure file integrity and detect system intrusions.

In this article, we will show how to install and use AIDE to check file and directory integrity in Fedora distribution.

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Aaron Kili

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