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= Aide =
=== How to install Aide ===
== How to install Aide ==
To install AIDE just issue the following command:
To install AIDE just issue the following command:
<pre><nowiki>
yum -y install aide
yum -y install aide
</nowiki></pre>


It installs aide but creates nothing until it is being instructed to do so.
It installs aide but creates nothing until it is being instructed to do so.


== How to setup Aide ==
=== How to setup Aide ===
Once aide is installed, the first step is to create a new database of the current system status, ideally this must be done just after OS installation is done. The rpm available on uWink repository has done a configuration file that is located on `/etc/aide.conf`, and and only root can access it.
Once aide is installed, the first step is to create a new database of the current system status, ideally this must be done just after OS installation is done. The rpm available on Bashlinux repository has done a configuration file that is located on <tt>/etc/aide.conf</tt>, and and only root can access it.
# Initialize the database
* Initialize the database
<pre><nowiki>
aide -i
aide -i
* Set database created as "database" to be compared against
</nowiki></pre>

# Set database created as "database" to be compared against
<pre><nowiki>
mv /etc/aide.db.new /etc/aide.db
mv /etc/aide.db.new /etc/aide.db
* Change database attributes
</nowiki></pre>

# Change database attributes
<pre><nowiki>
chattr +i /etc/aide.db
chattr +i /etc/aide.db
</nowiki></pre>


=== How to run Aide ===

== How to run Aide ==
This an abstract from the man pages.
This an abstract from the man pages.
* Checks the database for inconsistencies. You must have an initialized database to do this. This is also the default command. Without any command aide does a check.
* Check the database for inconsistencies. You must have an initialized database to do this. This is also the default command. Without any command aide does a check.
<pre><nowiki>
--check, -C
--check, -C
* Initialize the database. You must initialize a database and move it to the appropriate place before you can use the <code>--check</code> command.
</nowiki></pre>

* Initialize the database. You must initialize a database and move it to the appropriate place before you can use the `--check` command.
<pre><nowiki>
--init, -i
--init, -i
* Check the database and updates the database non-interactively. The input and output databases must be different.
</nowiki></pre>

* Checks the database and updates the database non-interactively. The input and output databases must be different.
<pre><nowiki>
--update, -u
--update, -u
* Compares two databases. They must be defined in configfile with <code>database=<url></code> and <code>database_new=<url></code>
</nowiki></pre>


* Compares two databases. They must be defined in configfile with `database=<url>` and `database_new=<url>`.
<pre><nowiki>
--compare
--compare
* Stops after reading in the configuration file. Any errors will be reported. If aide was compiled with the <code>--with-dbhmackey</code> option, a hash for the config file will be calculated. See the aide manual for more information
</nowiki></pre>


* Stops after reading in the configuration file. Any errors will be reported. If aide was compiled with the `--with-dbhmackey` option, a hash for the config file will be calculated. See the aide manual for more information
<pre><nowiki>
--config-check, -D
--config-check, -D
</nowiki></pre>



== Links ==
== References ==
* Home page [[http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide.html]]
* [http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide.html Aide's Home Page]
* Manual [[http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide/manual.html]]
* [http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide/manual.html Aide's Manual]

Latest revision as of 04:54, 16 June 2015

How to install Aide

To install AIDE just issue the following command:

yum -y install aide

It installs aide but creates nothing until it is being instructed to do so.

How to setup Aide

Once aide is installed, the first step is to create a new database of the current system status, ideally this must be done just after OS installation is done. The rpm available on Bashlinux repository has done a configuration file that is located on /etc/aide.conf, and and only root can access it.

  • Initialize the database
aide -i
  • Set database created as "database" to be compared against
mv /etc/aide.db.new /etc/aide.db
  • Change database attributes
chattr +i /etc/aide.db

How to run Aide

This an abstract from the man pages.

  • Check the database for inconsistencies. You must have an initialized database to do this. This is also the default command. Without any command aide does a check.
--check, -C
  • Initialize the database. You must initialize a database and move it to the appropriate place before you can use the --check command.
--init, -i
  • Check the database and updates the database non-interactively. The input and output databases must be different.
--update, -u
  • Compares two databases. They must be defined in configfile with database=<url> and database_new=<url>
--compare
  • Stops after reading in the configuration file. Any errors will be reported. If aide was compiled with the --with-dbhmackey option, a hash for the config file will be calculated. See the aide manual for more information
--config-check, -D

References