With the increasing numbers of attacks on servers nowadays, administering the server while ensuring security is becoming a complex problem. To be sure that every attack has been effectively blocked is difficult to know. Tripwire is a host-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS), which can be used to monitor different filesystem data points and then alert us if any file is modified or changed.
We only need to install the Tripwire package on our Linux system to configure our IDS. In the next section, we will see how to install and configure the tool.
We will discuss how to install and configure Tripwire on our Ubuntu system in the following steps:
- During the installation process, it will show an information window. Click OK to continue.
- In the next window, select
Internet Site
for type of mail configuration and clickOk
:
- In the next window, it will ask for
system mail name
. Enter...