Recipe 1.2 Displaying the Policy and Configuration
1.2.1 Problem
You want to view
Tripwire's
policy or configuration, but they are stored in non-human-readable,
binary files, or they are missing.
1.2.2 Solution
Generate the active configuration file:
# cd /etc/tripwire
# twadmin --print-cfgfile > twcfg.txt
Generate the active policy file:
# cd /etc/tripwire
# twadmin --print-polfile > twpol.txt
1.2.3 Discussion
Tripwire's active configuration file
tw.cfg and policy file
tw.pol are encrypted and signed and therefore
non-human-readable. To view them, you must first convert them to
plaintext.Tripwire's documentation advises you to delete the
plaintext versions of the configuration and policy after re-signing
them. If your plaintext files were missing to start with, this is
probably why.Although you can redirect the output of twadmin to
any files you like, remember that twinstall.sh
requires the plaintext policy and configuration files to have the
names we used, twcfg.txt and
twpol.txt. [Recipe 1.1]
1.2.4 See Also
twadmin(8).