mtree vs tripwire

[Dorin H]

--- D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd at visi.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> This might seem really naive, but can mtree be used
> effectively as
> a native-to-core-OS tripwire equivalent? Would it be
> as efficient in
> terms of time-to-run and resource requirements?
> 
Theoretically, and practical for small configurations,
yes.

> What sort of pitfalls should I be aware of?
> 

IMHO, you can use any tool you want to compute some
"signature" for files you deem relevant.  But you have
to carefully consider the scalability problem, the
problem of false/negatives (how you/your program deal
with a modified file? bin/config/data/tmp file) and so
on. Tripwire (coorect me if I am wrong, but last time
I looked it was still to be updated in FreeBSD, focus
was on "aide") is a targetted tool that helps with the
information management... probably bloated :). Like
any tool, it is up to you to decide what's useful or
not ;)
HTH,
/Dorin.

> Has anyone here done this? If so, would you care to
> share your
> scripts/techniques?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
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