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aide

Integrity and confinementPackage: aide

Fingerprint-based intrusion detection: a baseline of the files, then a report of what changed. Worth only as much as a baseline taken on a clean machine and kept off it.

What its options do in the lessons

From the same glossary the lessons render under their commands, so the two cannot disagree.

aide --check
Compares the disk against the existing database and reports the differences, writing no new database. The exit status is a sum: 1 new files, 2 removed, 4 changed.

Lessons that teach it