Hi Barry,
Without looking at the documentation....

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Walker, Barry <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am in the process of creating rules for social security number detection 
> and credit cards.  I created the following file, customer_data with the 
> contents of:
>
> 123-45-6789
>
> I then modified /var/ossec/etc/shared/system_audit_rcl.txt with the following:
>
> [Possible Unencrypted Social Security Number Detected] [any] []
> d:$web_dirs -> r:^\. -> r:\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d\d\d;
>

What is $web_dirs?

> Next I modified /var/ossec/rules/local_rules.xml with the following:
>
>  <!-- This will check social security plain text. -->
>  <!--

Do you have the above characters in the local_rules.xml in this
position above the rule? If so, they will make the rule a "comment"
and it will not be live.

>  <rule id=.100024. level=.12.>

I'm guessing the "."s above are "mis-translated" quotations.

>    <if_sid>516</if_sid>
>    <match>Unencrypted Social Security Number</match>
>    <description>Possible Unencrypted Social Security Number 
> Detected</description>
>  </rule>
>  -->
>
> Next I restarted OSSEC with:  /var/ossec/bin/ossec-control restart
>
> Next I initiated a scan on the local system:  /var/ossec/bin/agent_ctonrol -r 
> -u 000
>
> The problem that I have is that I do not get any results back detecting the 
> customer_data file has what appears to be a social security number.
>
> Does anybody see where I may have gone wrong?
>
> Barry Walker
>

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