Re: [Aide] aide.db checksum issue

[Richard van den Berg]

On 23-12-2008 12:46, Joe Delaney wrote:
> I have been using aide over the years without issues, but on a very
> recent install of a SUSE 11.1 system, when I run aide -C  to check
> system against the database file /var/lib/aide/aide.db  I get the
> response:
>
>     /Database 1 does not have checksum!/
>     /Aborted/
>
> I know this is likely due to the fact that the FORCEDBMD macro is used
> for to force the signing of the aide.db database.
>
> My question is: How do I sign  the aide.db file  so as  aide -C  will
> accept  this database file?.

When aide is build with database signing enabled, "aide --init" will
sign the database. All you need to do is re-initialize aide.db (which is
always a good idea after upgrading aide).

Regards,

Richard van den Berg

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