[Aide] libgcrypt error

[Chandana De Silva]

Hello Keith,

Thanks for your response. Now that I know it is not a problem with my 
system, compiling my own binary is not such a bad idea after all. At 
this stage I am using 0.11 (which works), but does not have support for 
symlinks. So building a 0.13 binary for the older centos versions makes 
sense.

Thanks and regards
Chandana
>> >I am trying to run aide 0.13 on a Centos 5.2 server, and am getting this
>> >error :  libgcrypt version mismatch.
>> >
>> >This seems to be from this change:
>> >http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/aide.git/diff/?id=af2e1397d3c3ba8cf65699ce2ac0205f7995b944
>> >
>> >Checking the aide RPM and the libgcrypt RPM, things seem to match.
>> >
>> >Can someone help me, please ?
>> >
>> >Thanks and regards
>> >Chandana
>> >
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> Chandana,
>
> I apologize in advance, as my advice is probably not what you are looking for.
>
> That old CentOS build of aide is compiled as a dynamic binary. According to the aide documentation, this is not recommended [1]. Building aide this way decreases the security offered by aide, as the linked libraries then become an attack vector.
>
> I highly recommend compiling your own aide binary and using that, rather than one packaged in 2007.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Keith Constable