Friday, July 23, 2010
tripwire configuration and operation
Think of this as a quick setup guide to tripwire on CentOS (or RHEL). My platform, as usual, is CentOS 5.5. The version of tripwire installed is open source 2.4.1.1-1.el5 available from EPEL.
My main sources of information were the tripwire man pages and a blog post entitled Install Tripwire on Fedora 11 (the EPEL package is a port of the Fedora package for RHEL). The especially useful twpol.txt filtering script came from the blog post.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
rkhunter
Some basic configurations for rkhunter, a root kit detector tool that I’ve found useful.
I installed the EPEL package for CentOS (RHEL) 5, currently rkhunter-1.3.6-7.el5.noarch.rpm.
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crontab syntax
Here is a nice graphic that lays out the basic syntax for a crontab entry:
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Windows is SO helpful or, cache is evil
It’s not Microsoft’s fault that desktop computing, computer in general really, is built on a foundation of sand, always threatening to give way and leave you homeless without warning.
I am, of course, speaking of how Windows caches network information. Read on for my solution.
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Monday, July 5, 2010
D-Link DNS-321
Just got my very own D-Link DNS-321 a couple of days ago. Spent the holiday weekend hacking it.