Linux Security Notes - AIDE File Integrity | Linux Today

Linux Security Notes – AIDE File Integrity

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 22, 2009

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“It allows to take snapshots of all the major
configuration files, binaries as well as libraries stats. And helps
to find which binaries have been changed in case of compromisation
of the system. This can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net.

“…This will create a new database called aide.db.new. This
command will scan all the files in the /etc/ directory and stores
them as a database called aide.db.new.

“Note: AIDE uses the stat command to get the details of the file
including the permissions, inode, acess time, modified time etc.
and will store them in the aide.db file.”


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