[Aide] File type attribute

Pete J. O'Hara pete at guardiandigital.com
Fri Oct 21 15:07:41 EEST 2005


Bob Proulx wrote:

>I am still using one of the last free versions of tripwire and at
>least with that version there is no such thing as file types.  And of
>course unix does not have file types either (except maybe character
>device, block device, pipe, socket, directory, file and those are all
>captured by the file mode) so that all makes sense.
>  
>
In tripwire there is the "property mask" of "t" (according the the 
"Tripwire Policy File Reference") which represents "file type".  It is 
used in their "Predefined variables" such as "Read Only = 
+pinugtsdbmCM-rhacSH".

Pete



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