[Aide] Q: The attributes of the (uncompressed) database(s)

[Hannes von Haugwitz]

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 12:44:05PM +0100, Bastard Operator from Hell aka Django wrote:
> I see checksums that do not match those from the log file. :/ Am I
> misunderstanding something here, or is something going wrong?
>
> I'm a bit confused right now, but it's probably just PEBCAK again and I'm
> not understanding something correctly... :/

The checksums in the report are base64 encoded by default.

See also the Notes section of the aide(1) manual page:

    The checksums in the database and in the output are by default
    base64 encoded (see also report_base16 option).  To decode them you
    can use the following shell command:

    echo <encoded_checksum> | base64 -d | hexdump -v -e '32/1 "%02x" "\n"'

Best regards

Hannes