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Date:      Wed, 31 May 2000 19:49:15 -0700
From:      Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
To:        Robert Gash <gashalot@gashalot.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Recommendations for alternative tripwire options 
Message-ID:  <200006010249.e512nGk04745@cwsys.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 May 2000 22:15:08 EDT." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005312208000.32087-100000@raq.tabernae.com>

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In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005312208000.32087-100000@raq.tabernae.com>, 
Robert
Gash writes:
> After reading the recent articles about the crack attempts on the
> community LAN I am going to go ahead and deal with the hassle of
> installing system file watching programs (like tripwire, etc.).  However,
> as we are a commercial orginization, the new copies of tripwire are not
> free for us, and I'd like to use something in the GPL (as GPL software
> often works better than commercial products).  I've looked around and
> found AIDE, which appears to be a tripwire replacement written under the
> GNU GPL.  I have only found one mention of this on the freebsd-security
> list in the geocrawler archives, so I'll ask.
> 
> Has anyone found any decent systems like tripwire available under the GNU
> GPL?  I like to keep my systems pretty tight (nothing but trusted daemons
> [FTP, Apache, openssh] running on the machines, and we don't allow any
> users to log in, period.), but security from the inside can never hurt
> (espically with a growing staff on the inside).  If you know of some
> software like tripwire available under the GPL (or freely available to
> commercial orginizations), I'd love to hear from you (and perhaps some
> others on the list as well).  I've had no success in getting AIDE to
> compile on my 3.4-S box over here, I'll include the compile errors below.

I've managed to build, install, and test aide on FreeBSD and I happen 
to like Tripwwire better.  You can get 1.3 or 1.3.1 from 
tripwiresecurity.com.  As they don't have a FreeBSD product I've been 
told by a Tripwiresecurity salesman that FreeBSD users can use 1.3.1 
without restriction.  Reading the copyright I don't see any 
restriction.  I do have a locally developed port for 1.3.1.  If anyone 
wants it I could submit a PR to have it replace Tripwire 1.2 or added 
in addition to 1.2 to the ports collection.

Tripwiresecurity is talking about releasing Tripwire 2.x to open 
source, however you'd still have to purchase the Tripwire console.  
They're not exactly sure when.

On the other hand I did submit a PR with an aide 0.6 port.  I'm not 
sure what happened to it, probably still in gnats somewhere.  It would 
be trivial to update the port for 0.7.


Regards,                       Phone:  (250)387-8437
Cy Schubert                      Fax:  (250)387-5766
Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team   Internet:  Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA
Province of BC





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