Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Tripwire

Open Source Tripwire® software is a security and data integrity tool useful for monitoring and alerting on specific file change(s) on a range of systems.

1) Download tripwire latest stable version from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3130

2) tar –xvf tripwire-2.4.1.2-src.tar

3) cd tripwire-2.4.1.2-src

4) ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/

5) make & make install

6) During installation it will ask for pass phrase, you can give it anything like ‘vmdfJH789zxnm’ more than 8 Characters

7) To test >> /usr/local/sbin/tripwire --test --email emailaddress@yahoo.com, you will receive an email from Tripwire.

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