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Installing and Configuring AIDE
In this lab, we will install the Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) and configure it to monitor directories and applications for changes. We will also set up a cron job to run a daily check using AIDE. *This course is not approved or sponsored by Red Hat.*

Lab Info
Table of Contents
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Challenge
Install and configure AIDE
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Install AIDE:
yum install -y aide
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Initialize AIDE:
/usr/sbin/aide --init
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Copy initialized database to production:
cp /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new.gz /var/lib/aide/aide.db.gz
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Challenge
Configure AIDE to run every day at 1 AM
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Create a cronjob to run
aide --check
at 1 AM daily:nano /etc/crontab
0 1 * * * /usr/sbin/aide --check
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Challenge
Define directories and applications to monitor
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Define directories to monitor:
nano /etc/aide.conf
/patient-data DIR /accounting DIR
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Add an application to monitor each time it's accessed:
nano /etc/aide.conf
APP_ACCESS = a /applications/payroll APP_ACCESS
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Challenge
Update the AIDE database with new directory and application statuses
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Update the AIDE database (because we made changes to the
/etc/aide.conf
file):/usr/sbin/aide --update
cp /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new.gz /var/lib/aide/aide.db.gz
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