Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, I am not an administrator of the system. I was only hoping to insure the integrity of my home dir.
Regards, Keith Constable On Jul 5, 2012, at 4:55 PM, Shirkdog <[email protected]> wrote: Configure sudo to allow you to run aide with the necessary privilege to read the contents of the directory. This depends on your version of sudo. -- Michael Shirk On Jul 5, 2012 4:25 PM, "Keith Constable" <[email protected]> wrote: > 0 down vote favorite > > > I would like to use AIDE to help me verify the integrity of my home > directory on > a shared Linux system. I am not an administrator of this system. I have > built > and installed AIDE in my home directory and it seems to work properly. > > The sysadmin has set permissions on /home to 0751. This allows users to > enter > /home, but not list the contents of the directory (an ineffective security > measure, in my opinion). > > For demonstration purposes, consider this overly simple aide.conf: > > database_out=file:aide.db.new > /home/kccricket R > > Given this setup, running aide -i will output: > > open_dir():Permission denied: /home > > AIDE, version 0.15.1 > > ### AIDE database at aide.db.new initialized. > > The resulting AIDE database will be empty. If I run the same command with > -V255 > (highest verbosity), I can see that AIDE examines every directory in / and > then > attempts to do the same with /home. It chokes because it can't list the > contents > of /home. > > Is there a way to make this work, short of asking the sysadmin to change > the > perms on /home? > > Regards, > > Keith Constable > > _______________________________________________ > Aide mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/aide > _______________________________________________ Aide mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/aide
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