[Aide] Directories and files that often change

[Eric Webster]

Well that would be a nice entry point for an attacker really. They could
add/do what they want within the folder and your IDS wouldn't show. I try to
avoid monitoring whenever possible. Make some really fancy regexps for the
files within it and reduce monitoring of those files to a minimum, such as
Permissions and Groups for example. This way you still get to pick up new
and deleted files within the directory. It might take awhile to get them all
depending on the contents of the directory, but you could also add a rule to
ignore/minimally monitor ever file in it. Hope this helps.
 

Eric Webster
Enterprise Services
2CheckOut.com 

 


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From: aide-bounces at cs.tut.fi [mailto:aide-bounces at cs.tut.fi] On Behalf Of
Sonixxfx
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:10 PM
To: Aide user mailinglist
Subject: [Aide] Directories and files that often change


Hi,

I wonder what I should do with files and directories that often change. I
know some people ignore these entirely, but can someone tell me what the
risk of doing that would be?

Thanks

Ben


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