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Tripwire

1. Install Tripwire

apt-get install tripwire

2. Initialize Tripwire Database

For the first time use, you should initialize the tripwire database as shown below.

cd /opt/tripwire/sbin/

./tripwire --init

Please enter your local passphrase:
Parsing policy file: /opt/tripwire/etc/tw.pol
Generating the database...
*** Processing Unix File System ***
The object: "/sys" is on a different file system...ignoring.
### Warning: File system error.
### Filename: /cdrom
### No such file or directory
### Continuing...
### Warning: File system error.
### Filename: /floppy
### No such file or directory
### Continuing...
### Warning: File system error.
### Filename: /initrd
### No such file or directory
### Continuing...
### Warning: File system error.
Wrote database file: /opt/tripwire/lib/tripwire/prod-db-srv.twd
The database was successfully generated.

3. Modify Tripwire Policy File

As shown above, during the tripwire database initialization, it may display “No such file or directory” error message for some of the default files mentioned in the tripwire policy file. If your system don’t have those files, edit the policy file and comment those entries.

For example, modify the /opt/tripwire/etc/twpol.txt tripwire policy file and comment out /cdrom and /floppy as shown below.

(
  rulename = "OS Boot Files and Mount Points",
)
{
  /boot                         -> $(ReadOnly) ;
#  /cdrom                        -> $(Dynamic) ;
#  /floppy                       -> $(Dynamic) ;
  /mnt                          -> $(Dynamic) ;
}

Using the tripwire policy files you can define the directories and files that needs to be monitored for the changes. You can also be more granular and specify the file attributes that should be either monitored or ignored.

Following are some of the UNIX system properties that are monitored by tripwire.

4. Update Tripwire Policy File

Once you’ve modified the policy file, it needs to be updated as shown below.

./tripwire --update-policy --secure-mode low ../etc/twpol.txt

Parsing policy file: /opt/tripwire/etc/twpol.txt
Please enter your local passphrase:
Please enter your site passphrase:
======== Policy Update: Processing section Unix File System.

======== Step 1: Gathering information for the new policy.
The object: "/sys" is on a different file system...ignoring.

======== Step 2: Updating the database with new objects.

======== Step 3: Pruning unneeded objects from the database.
Wrote policy file: /opt/tripwire/etc/tw.pol
Wrote database file: /opt/tripwire/lib/tripwire/prod-db-srv.twd

Note: if any files has been modified from the time you’ve done the tripwire initialization until the tripwire update policy, they will be listed under the “Step 1: Gathering information for the new policy” output of the above command.

### Warning: Policy Update Changed Object.
### An object has been changed since the database was last updated.

### Object name: Conflicting properties for object
### /u01/app/oracle/oradata/dbfiles/prod01.dbf
### > Modify Time
### > CRC32
### > MD5

5. Check for any changes to the files and update tripwire database.

Once the tripwire setup is completed, you should regularly perform checks to find out what files where added or modified from the last time the tripwire database was updated. You can perform this check interactively from command line as shown below.

./tripwire --check --interactive

Parsing policy file: /opt/tripwire/etc/tw.pol
*** Processing Unix File System ***

Performing integrity check...
Wrote report file:
/opt/tripwire/lib/tripwire/report/prod-db-srv-20081204-114336.twr

This will automatically open the following tripwire report file in your default editor, where you can review all the files that has been added or modified to the system. As shown below, the “Added” and “Modified” files will have a check mark in front of them, indicating that you are accepting these changes to be updated to the tripwire database.

===============================================================================
Report Summary:
===============================================================================
Host name:                    prod-db-srv
Host IP address:              192.168.1.10
Host ID:                      None
Policy file used:             /opt/tripwire/etc/tw.pol
Configuration file used:      /opt/tripwire/etc/tw.cfg
Database file used:           /opt/tripwire/lib/tripwire/prod-db-srv.twd
Command line used:            ./tripwire --check --interactive

Remove the "x" from the adjacent box to prevent updating the database
with the new values for this object.

Added:
[x] "/u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/proddb/proddb/trace/proddb_m000_11376.trc"
[x] "/u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/proddb/proddb/trace/proddb_m000_11376.trm"

Modified:
[x] "/u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/proddb/proddb/metadata/INC_METER_CONFIG.ams"
[x] "/u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/proddb/proddb/metadata/INC_METER_INFO.ams"

Added object name:  /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/proddb/proddb/trace/proddb_m000_11376.trc

  Property:            Expected                    Observed
  -------------        -----------                 -----------
* Object Type          ---                         Regular File
* Device Number        ---                         2049
* Inode Number         ---                         12026017
* Mode                 ---                         -rw-r-----
* Num Links            ---                         1
* UID                  ---                         oracle (1082)
* GID                  ---                         oinstall (1083)
* Size                 ---                         837
* Modify Time          ---                         Sat 06 Dec 2008 10:01:51 AM PST
* Blocks               ---                         8
* CRC32                ---                         AYxMeo
* MD5                  ---                         AXSkOul8R/np0fQP4q3QLv

Modified object name:  /u01/app/oracle/diag/tnslsnr/proddb/listener/trace/listener.log

  Property:            Expected                    Observed
  -------------        -----------                 -----------
  Object Type          Regular File                Regular File
  Device Number        2049                        2049
  Inode Number         2295281                     2295281
  Mode                 -rw-r-----                  -rw-r-----
  Num Links            1                           1
  UID                  oracle (1082)               oracle (1082)
  GID                  oinstall (1083)             oinstall (1083)
* Size                 5851880                     5858608
* Modify Time          Sat 06 Dec 2008 09:58:53 AM PST
                                                   Sat 06 Dec 2008 11:39:56 AM PST
* Blocks               11456                       11472
* CRC32                ANdM8R                      CK+bWM
* MD5                  DCW84lCuD2YJOhQd/EuVsn      CV8BMvZNJB9KQBXAf5yRDY

Please enter your local passphrase:
Incorrect local passphrase.
Please enter your local passphrase:
Wrote database file: /opt/tripwire/lib/tripwire/prod-db-srv.twd

6. How to view the twr report file?

All the tripwire report files with *.twr extension are stored under /opt/tripwire/lib/tripwire/report directory. tripwire report file *.twr is not a text file, which you can view directly. In order to view the report, use twprint and convert the *.twr file to a readable text format as shown below.

./twprint --print-report --twrfile \
/opt/tripwire/lib/tripwire/report/prod-db-srv-20081204-114336.twr  > \
/tmp/readable-output.txt

7. Monitor Linux System Integrity Regularly

Add tripwire checking as a cron job to monitor and report any changes on an on-going basis. For example, add the following line to your crontab to execute tripwire check daily at 4:00 a.m.

# Tripwire Monitor process
00 4 * * * /opt/tripwire/sbin/tripwire  --check

8. Tripwire Configuration and Policy File Locations

Use twadmin to view the current tripwire policy files. Only partial output is shown below.

./twadmin --print-polfile
@@section GLOBAL
TWDOCS="/opt/tripwire/doc/tripwire";
TWBIN="/opt/tripwire/sbin";
TWPOL="/opt/tripwire/etc";
TWDB="/opt/tripwire/lib/tripwire";
TWSKEY="/opt/tripwire/etc";
TWLKEY="/opt/tripwire/etc";
TWREPORT="/opt/tripwire/lib/tripwire/report";
HOSTNAME=prod-db-srv;

Use twadmin to get information about all the tripwire configuration files as shown below.

./twadmin --print-cfgfile
ROOT          =/opt/tripwire/sbin
POLFILE       =/opt/tripwire/etc/tw.pol
DBFILE        =/opt/tripwire/lib/tripwire/$(HOSTNAME).twd
REPORTFILE    =/opt/tripwire/lib/tripwire/report/$(HOSTNAME)-$(DATE).twr
SITEKEYFILE   =/opt/tripwire/etc/site.key
LOCALKEYFILE  =/opt/tripwire/etc/prod-db-srv-local.key
EDITOR        =/bin/vi
LATEPROMPTING =false
LOOSEDIRECTORYCHECKING =false
MAILNOVIOLATIONS =true
EMAILREPORTLEVEL =3
REPORTLEVEL   =3
MAILMETHOD    =SENDMAIL
SYSLOGREPORTING =false
MAILPROGRAM   =/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t