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Linux Security Cookbook
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Linux Security Cookbook

by Daniel J. Barrett, Richard E. Silverman, Robert G. Byrnes
June 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
336 pages
8h 54m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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1.14. Checking Windows VFAT Filesystems

Problem

When checking the integrity of a VFAT filesystem, tripwire always complains that files have changed when they haven’t.

Solution

Tell tripwire not to compare inode numbers.

               filename -> rule -i ;

For example:

/mnt/windows/system  -> $(SEC_BIN) -i ;

Discussion

Modern Linux kernels do not assign constant inode numbers in VFAT filesystems.

See Also

The Tripwire manual has detailed documentation on the policy file format.

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