Showing posts with label AIDE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AIDE. Show all posts

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) -host based IDS for Linux

Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment or AIDE is a host-based IDS & free substitute for Tripwire.
It scans the filesystem and logs the attributes of important files, directories, and devices. Each time it runs, it compares its scanned attributes against the previous, "known good" data, and alerts you if something has changes.
AIDE works by reading in the configuration file /etc/aide/aide.conf that contains
1. the attributes of each entry to log. There are currently thirteen attributes that AIDE can log — including permissions, owner, group, size, all three timestamps (atime, ctime, and mtime), plus lower-level stuff like inode, block count, number of links, and so on.
You will find these codes in the conf file.