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aide-0.19.3

Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (file mod checker)

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Description

AIDE is a tool for monitoring file system changes. It can be used to detect unauthorized monitored files and directories. It was written to be a simple and free alternative to Tripwire. o File attributes monitored: permissions, inode, user, group file size, mtime, atime, ctime, links and growing size. o Multiple checksums and hashes supported o Plain text configuration files and database for simplicity. o Rules, variables and macros that can be customized to local site or system policies. o Powerful regular expression support to selectively include or exclude files and directories to be monitored. o gzip database compression if zlib support.

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Ports path
security/aide
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
security
Available flavors
None listed

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