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2005/7/29-31 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/SW] UID:38872 Activity:kinda low
7/29    Has anybody deployed a "checksumming/file integrity infrastructure"
        across say ~100 *nix machines? Any recommendations for particular
        tools? Tripwire is garbage, and for various reasons I am thinking
        about moving away from veracity, which I am been using for a while.
        Considering looking at osiris and samhain. Would prefer something
        lean and old-school unixish (like one binary and one config file)
        rather than one of these "entrprise software system" type things
        with a large footprint and a lot of chrome. Tnx.
        \_ Not on 100 machines, but we ran fcheck for a while.  It was really
           resource intensive.  I moved to some one-or-two binaries C one
           ..i think the name started w/ an "a"  It worked pretty well.
           --dbushong
           \- re: resouce intensiveness ... if the resources are 1. human time
              2. cpu 3. disk io, i think you can decrease #2 by using fletcher
              checksum instead of an expensive one like md5. not much you can
              do about disk io ... so a lot of it comes down to #1 ... it's
              key to have a config system flexible enough to not go crazy if
              somebody say nfs mounts a 300gig parition without factoring
              that into the configruation. as with intrusion detection
              systems in general, resourse and ability to minimize false
              alarms is what dictates success or failure in a practical
              sense. for me, chekcing the OS on a sun takes about 6-10 min.
              \_ The a____ program I switched to used less compute resources
                 because it:
                 a) used a weaker checksum
                 b) had internal optimized checksumming code (rather than
                    forking "md5sum" each time)
                 Both fcheck and it specified certain directories to scan and
                 didn't traverse mount points.
                 --dbushong
        \_ There was a discussion of this on one of my security lists a
           while ago--I have forwarded your question, and will forward
           what comes up if you tell me who you are.  So far someone has
           suggested http://aide.sourceforge.net  -John
           \_ That was the one.  --dbushong
              \_ How do you mean?  Does it work for you?  I'd be interested
                 in your experience with it as I've had clients with just this
                 kind of requirement.  -John
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aide.sourceforge.net -> www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide.html
AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a free replacement for Tripwire. It does the same things as the semi-free Tripwire and more. There are other free replacements available so why build a new one? All t he other replacements do not achieve the level of Tripwire. And I wanted a program that would exceed the limitations of Tripwire. It creates a database from the regular expression rules that it finds fro m the config file. Once this database is initialized it can be used to v erify the integrity of the files. All of the usual file attributes can also be checked for inconsistencies. See the manual pages with in the distribution for further info. Below is a list of platforms peo ple are actually running AIDE on (That I know of). Please let me know if you are running aide on something else. First, make sure the bug stil exists in the current version from CVS (see below). org Disclaimer All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. No animals were harmed while making this webpage or this piece of softwar e Although some pizza delivery guy's feelings were hurt.