On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 2:14 AM, Sean.Haynes - SCH.570
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Morning everyone one....
>
>
> Firstly please understand I am a complete novice when it comes to Linux - it
> would be fair to say that installing OSSEC has been my first real venture
> over to the 'dark side'!! so if you can please include the path statements
> to any configs I need to check that would be massively appreciated.
>
>
> Anyway thanks to this tutorial I have managed, mostly to get the basic
> install, clients, email notifications and the WebUI running.
>
>
> https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/OSSEC_2.8.0_Server_Client_and_Analogi_Dashboard_on_Ubuntu.html
>
>
> The key reason I need to install a HIDS is that I have had recently a series
> of files on a server 2012 r2 vm changed - specifically the NTFS permission.
> I can't find the source and need to  track it down.
>
>
> On the server that has had the permissions changed I added the path
> statement ( userdirs ) in the client config I want OSSEC to monitor - which
> it does, but also all the files in the tree which as it's the user home
> areas amount to thousands... Is there a way to configuring OSSEC to monitor
> changes just at the root level parent directory in the config file?
>
>
> When I use the WebUI to do a dump for that server I get a php error: .202 is
> the machine I use to access the webUI - I'm guessing that because OSSEC is
> monitoring such a large number of files for the server it's causing this
> error?
>
>
> Level: 5 - Web server 500 error code (Internal Error).
> Rule Id: 31122
> Location: OSSEC->/var/log/apache2/access.log
> Src IP: 10.5.107.202
>
> 10.5.107.202 - - [30/Aug/2015:05:44:08 +0100] "POST /ossec/index.php?f=i
> HTTP/1.1" 500 3533 "http://10.5.107.221/ossec/index.php?f=i"; "Mozilla/4.0
>
> (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR
> 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0;
>
> .NET4.0C; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET4.0E; InfoPath.3)"
>
> 2015 Aug 30 05:44:11 Level: 2 - Unknown problem somewhere in the system.
> Rule Id: 1002
> Location: OSSEC->/var/log/apache2/error.log
>
> [Sun Aug 30 05:44:10.411270 2015] [:error] [pid 5679] [client
> 10.5.107.202:65185] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes
> exhausted
>
> (tried to allocate 4097 bytes) in
> /var/www/html/ossec/lib/os_lib_syscheck.php on line 39, referer:
> http://10.5.107.221/ossec/index.php?f=i
>
> 2015 Aug 30 05:44:04 Level: 2 - Unknown problem somewhere in the system.
> Rule Id: 1002
> Location: OSSEC->/var/log/apache2/error.log
>
> [Sun Aug 30 05:44:02.826980 2015] [:error] [pid 5728] [client
> 10.5.107.202:65182] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
>
> /var/www/html/ossec/lib/os_lib_syscheck.php on line 98, referer:
> http://10.5.107.221/ossec/index.php?f=i
>
> 2015 Aug 30 05:44:04 Level: 2 - Unknown problem somewhere in the system.
> Rule Id: 1002
> Location: OSSEC->/var/log/apache2/error.log
>
> [Sun Aug 30 05:44:02.826943 2015] [:error] [pid 5728] [client
> 10.5.107.202:65182] PHP Warning: arsort() expects parameter 1 to be array,
> null given
>
> in /var/www/html/ossec/lib/os_lib_syscheck.php on line 97, referer:
> http://10.5.107.221/ossec/index.php?f=I
>
>
> The WebUI
>
> The WebUI is the basic setup and mostly works - the bit that doesn't is when
> I select the search function - though it says there are a few erros it
> returns wit the message 'Nothing Returned'. I did a bit of research on the
> net and that this is caused by the www-data user not having read / write
> access to the tmp folder  - during the install the tutorial instructed to do
> this:
>

Is www-data the user that the webserver is running as (`ps ef | grep
WEB_SERVER_PROCESS_NAME`)?

>
> wget http://www.ossec.net/files/ossec-wui-0.8.tar.gz
> tar -xf ossec-wui-0.8.tar.gz
> mkdir -p /var/www/html/ossec/tmp/
> mv ossec-wui-0.8/* /var/www/html/ossec/
> chown www-data:www-data /var/www/html/ossec/tmp/
> chmod 666 /var/www/html/ossec/tmp
>
>
> It completed without error - the only thing is that you have to create the
> tmp file - how does OSSEC know how to use that files - is there a place
> where I need to create a 'pointer'?
>

It's been a long time since I used that pile, but I think it still has
a setup script. Did you run it?

>
> Lastly...for the minute anyway - what is the best way of securing access to
> the WebUI as in I don't want 'anyone' to be able to access the web page and
> should I use https - if so how do I go about doing that.
>

https is always good. Specifics depend on your web server of choice.
You can setup a username and password for the directory containing the wui.

>
> I only want the server to be accessible in one vlan - so is it best done
> though tcpwrappers, ufw, iptables?
>

Setting up the firewall is probably the first step.

>
> Thank you in advance
>
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