Re: sysadmin in training

On 5/12/23 08:47, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2023-05-12 08:10:04 -0700 (-0700), Jeffrey Chimene wrote:
> [...]
>> I'd like to propose adding a section that describes ossec.
> [...]
>
> There's an (ancient) RFP for it which apparently used to be an ITP:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/361954
>
> There's no ossec-hids package in Debian currently though, so
> actually packaging it for inclusion in the distribution seems like
> the place to start.

Agreed. Actually, ossec itself has a debian package, so no ITP for me 
:). It made my work significantly easier since the regex package (pcre2) 
isn't part of the distro; the absence has a reason, but it's still an 
impediment that ossec itself has addressed with their .deb

I'm proposing adding a section to the document. I'll do the work. 
There's a particular focus that I think needs clarifying, i.e. the 
"accidental" sysop. To be clear, I've been using Debian since Potato as 
a developer. It's only since 2017 that I've been actively using Buster, 
Bullseye.

<rant>I'm somewhat annoyed that, for example, Linode thinks documenting 
ossec installation on Debian 7 is relevant to the sysop looking to 
improve their security posture. That someone exploring ossec would be 
running 7 seems not be a problem.</rant>


```

# Add Apt sources.lst
wget -q -O - https://updates.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic | sudo bash

# Update apt data
sudo apt-get update

# Agent
sudo apt-get install ossec-hids-[server|agent]

```

Cheers,
jec