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In this chapter, you learned:
AIDE allows you to detect changes made to a machine's file systems.
An AIDE check can be run manually or by scheduling it with a tool such as crontab, and detect changes using a database of baseline information.
You use the /etc/aide.conf file to configure checks that AIDE performs against specific files and directories using group definitions, selection lines, and macros.
You need to rebuild the AIDE database file to accept authorized changes to files and to apply new settings from the configuration file.
You can use Audit in conjunction with AIDE to help you determine what process or user caused a change that AIDE is reporting.