AIDE/Tripwire (was: Re: was there an advertised ETA for the next beta?)

Michael Schwendt ms-nospam-0306 at arcor.de
Tue Aug 12 13:36:36 UTC 2003


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On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:22:30 +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:

> > I don't know how Red Hat have
> > created the default file, but it *might* be an idea to automate it based
> > on the files listed in rpmdb-redhat.
> 
>  You don't really need the rpmdb. Just finding all files in the 
> relevant directories and generating the twpol from that is quite easy 
> to accomplish and causes less overhead than using the rpmdb.

That would require a complete installation.

In both cases, using rpmdb or find, it would require extra logic to
sort the found files into different security categories in order to
make a default Tripwire installation usable. One of the scripts to
drop non-existant files from the policy config should be included,
too.

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