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Date:      Sun, 11 Aug 2002 09:11:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Dru <dlavigne6@cogeco.ca>
To:        sroberts@dsl.pipex.com
Cc:        FreeBSD <backdoc@crotchett.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: aide-0.7_1 docs?
Message-ID:  <20020811091020.L9801-100000@x1-6-00-80-c8-3a-b8-46>
In-Reply-To: <1029070581.38776.180.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com>

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On 11 Aug 2002, Stacey Roberts wrote:

> I've just had a read through the manual included in your earlier post.
>
> Unfortunately, there's no mention of any real-time detection / reporting
> functionality / config options in aide. And from the line: "After a
> break-in, an administrator may begin by examinining the system using
> system tools like ls, ps, netstat, and who --- the very tools most
> likely to be trojaned.", I'm not sure that this is what I'm looking for
> here - doesn't appear to offer any real-time detection / reporting of an
> ongoing intrusion attempt
>
> I've sent an e-mail to rammer requesting further information on aide,
> which hopefully will lead to a more informed decision on aide.
>
> Its good of you all to get back to me. At this point, I am beginning to
> believe that maybe I'm thinking of *something else* here, when I say
> Intrusion Detection System. Feel free to correct me if I'm heading down
> the wrong search path here.


Sounds like you're thinking more along the lines of "snort" or
"portsentry".

Dru


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