No, as this is a matter of system security you really want to create the aide.db.new.gz, and then rename/move it to aide.db.gz with ownership as root:root and limit the MODE to 0600 (-rw-------). You can generate the aide DB using the command "sudo aide --init" but remember to move the file to drop the "new" part, as I indicate above.
Good info thanks
can you do this without being the root user? my changes don't seem to be showing
No, as this is a matter of system security you really want to create the aide.db.new.gz, and then rename/move it to aide.db.gz with ownership as root:root and limit the MODE to 0600 (-rw-------).
You can generate the aide DB using the command "sudo aide --init" but remember to move the file to drop the "new" part, as I indicate above.
This does not cover the details about the /etc/aide.conf very deeply.
Yes, this is true. It was not meant to get too in depth, just cover basic configuration to run.