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aide — Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment to validate file integrity. More information: <https://mann

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Problem

How to use the aide command: Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment to validate file integrity. More information: <https://manned.org/aide>.

Solution

aide — Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment to validate file integrity. More information: <https://manned.org/aide>.

Initialize the database:

sudo aide {{[-i|--init]}}

Check the database for inconsistencies:

sudo aide {{[-C|--check]}}

Compare two databases according to definitions in the config file:

sudo aide {{[-E|--compare]}}

Check and update the database non-interactively:

sudo aide {{[-u|--update]}}

Define a config file to override the default aide.conf:

sudo aide {{[-c|--config]}} {{path/to/config_file}}

Use regex to limit AIDE to a specific string:

sudo aide {{[-l|--limit]}} {{regex}}

Send reporter results to a URL:

sudo aide {{[-r|--report]}} {{reporterurl}}

Code Snippets

Initialize the database

sudo aide {{[-i|--init]}}

Check the database for inconsistencies

sudo aide {{[-C|--check]}}

Compare two databases according to definitions in the config file

sudo aide {{[-E|--compare]}}

Check and update the database non-interactively

sudo aide {{[-u|--update]}}

Define a config file to override the default `aide.conf`

sudo aide {{[-c|--config]}} {{path/to/config_file}}

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