There was an idea previously about allowing SHAs and MD5s to be
searched as the key in a cdb list. Then when you're getting ready to
upgrade you pre-seed your list with the new checksums, and have a rule
to check the list when a new checksum is detected.

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Nick Green
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Is this something people would be interested in if we put some dev time into 
> it? We would create some kind of change daemons for both Linux puppet style 
> change control systems and Windows SCCM change control system. (exact details 
> to be fleshed out if the interest is there)
>
> Regards
> /nick
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of dan (ddp)
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 6:46 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [ossec-list] OSSEC syscheckd and Change Control Systems
>
> There's currently no way to do this.
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Nick Green <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Hi List,
>>
>> Just joined and have a scenario I need to crack ...
>>
>> 1. Ossec monitors file system file integrity.
>> 2. Change control system updates files e.g. /etc/passwd 3. Change
>> control system notifies ossec of new files to update md5/sha1
>> checksums BUT not alert because is authorized change.
>>
>> (that's the gist ... it a lot more complicated on the auth side but
>> for this illustration its enough)
>>
>> Does anyone run a similar installation as the above? Does ossec have a
>> command line call you update a file but not alert?
>>
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> /Nick
>

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