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NAME
bart_manifest - system audit manifest file
DESCRIPTION
The
bart(8) command generates a manifest that describes the contents of a
managed host. A manifest consists of a header and entries. Each entry
represents a single file. Entries are sorted in ascending order by file
name. Any nonstandard file names, such as those that contain embedded
newline or tab characters, have the special characters quoted prior to
being sorted. See
Quoting Syntax.
Lines that begin with
! supply metadata about the manifest. The manifest
version line indicates the manifest specification version. The date line
shows the date on which the manifest was created, in
date(1) form.
Some lines are ignored by the manifest comparison tool. Ignored lines
include blank lines, lines that consist only of white space, and comments
that begin with
#.
In addition to metadata lines, the header contains the format comment
block. This comment block lists the attributes reported for each file
type.
To see the format of a manifest file, see
EXAMPLES.
Manifest File Entries
Each manifest file entry is a single line of one of the following forms,
depending on the file type:
fname D
size mode acl dirmtime uid gid fname P
size mode acl mtime uid gid fname S
size mode acl mtime uid gid fname F
size mode acl mtime uid gid contents fname L
size mode acl lnmtime uid gid dest fname B
size mode acl mtime uid gid devnode fname C
size mode acl mtime uid gid devnode The fields of the manifest file entries are described as follows:
fname Name of the file. To prevent parsing problems that are caused
by special characters embedded in file names, file names are
encoded as described in Quoting Syntax.
type Type of file.
Possible values for
type are as follows:
B Block device node
C Character device node
D Directory
F File
L Symbolic link
P Pipe
S Socket
size File size in bytes.
mode Octal number that represents the permissions of the file.
acl ACL attributes for the file. For a file with ACL attributes,
this field contains the output from
acltotext().
uid Numerical user ID of the owner of this entry.
gid Numerical group ID of the owner of this entry.
dirmtime Modification time in seconds since 00:00:00 UTC, January 1,
1970 for directories.
lnmtime Creation time for links.
mtime Modification time in seconds since 00:00:00 UTC, January 1,
1970 for files.
contents Checksum value of the file. This attribute is only specified
for regular files. If you turn off context checking or if
checksums cannot be computed, the value of this field is
-.
dest Destination of a symbolic link.
devnode Value of the device node. This attribute is for character
device files and block device files only.
Quoting Syntax
The rules file supports a quoting syntax for representing nonstandard
file names.
When generating a manifest for file names that contain embedded TAB,
SPACE, or NEWLINE characters, the special characters are encoded in their
octal forms.
+----------------+------------------+
|Input Character | Quoted Character |
+----------------+------------------+
|SPACE | \SPACE |
+----------------+------------------+
|TAB | \TAB |
+----------------+------------------+
|NEWLINE | \NEWLINE |
+----------------+------------------+
|? | \? |
+----------------+------------------+
|[ | \[ |
+----------------+------------------+
|* | \* |
+----------------+------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Sample Manifest File
The following is a sample system manifest file. The file entries are
sorted by the encoded versions of the file names to correctly handle
special characters.
! Version 1.0
! Mon Feb 11 10:55:30 2002
# Format:
# fname D size mode acl dirmtime uid gid
# fname P size mode acl mtime uid gid
# fname S size mode acl mtime uid gid
# fname F size mode acl mtime uid gid contents
# fname L size mode acl lnmtime uid gid dest
# fname B size mode acl mtime uid gid devnode
# fname C size mode acl mtime uid gid devnode
/etc D 3584 40755 user::rwx,group::r-x,mask::r-x,other::r-x,
3c6803d7 0 3
/etc/.login F 524 100644 user::rw-,group::r--,mask::r--,other::r--,
3c165878 0 3 27b53d5c3e844af3306f1f12b330b318
/etc/.pwd.lock F 0 100600 user::rw-,group::---,mask::---,other::---,
3c166121 0 0 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
/etc/.syslog_door L 20 120777 user::rw-,group::r--,mask::
rwx,other::r--,3c6803d5 0 0 /var/run/syslog_door
/etc/autopush L 16 120777 user::r-x,group::r-x,mask::r-x,other::r-x,
3c165863 0 0 ../sbin/autopush
/etc/cron.d/FIFO P 0 10600 user::rw-,group::---,mask::---,other::---,
3c6803d5 0 0
SEE ALSO
date(1),
bart_rules(5),
attributes(7),
bart(8) December 28, 2020
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