Tripline

Description

A tool to verify file integrity. Verify if some aspect of a file or directory has changed relative to a recorded base situation.

Usage

Add file/directory Information

tripline add (FILE|DIR)+
    
Example
$ tripline add -fileset ssh ~/.ssh

Add options

• -fileset NAME.
  • The fileset to add the information to.
  • The fileset will be created automatically if it does not exist.
  • Default value: "default".
• -recursive BOOL.
  • Indicate if directories should be added recursively.
  • Default: true.
• -skip BOOL, -overwrite BOOL.
  • You have to indicate explicitly what should happen if file information is already in the database. There is no default value.
• -dirchecks CHECKLIST, -filechecks CHECKLIST.
  • The checks you want to perform on the added files and directories.
  • File default: size,modtime,ownership,permissions,sha256
  • Dir default: child,modtime,ownership,permissions

tripline delete (FILE|DIR)+

Example
tripline delete -fileset ssh ~/./ssh/id.pub

Delete options

• -fileset NAME.
  • The fileset from which to delete the files and directories.
  • The command always works recursively.

Verify Fileset Integrity

tripline verify (FILE|DIR)*
   
Example
$ tripline verify -fileset ssh

Verify options

• -fileset NAME.
  • The fileset to use for the verification.
  • Default: "default".
  • Explicit file and directory arguments are optional. If no files or directories are provided the complete fileset will be verified.

Fileset maintenance

List the contents of a fileset

• List options
  • -fileset NAME.

tripline list

Delete a fileset

• Delete options
  • -fileset NAME.

tripline deleteset

Copy a fileset. Can be handy before making modifications.

• Copyset options
  • --fileset NAME.

tripline copyset TO

Example
tripline copyset -fileset ssh ssh-backup

List the available datasets

• Listsets options
  • -fileset NAME.

tripline listsets

Signatures

Protect against database tampering with signatures. It is a manual process, the signatures are not automatically verified by the other operations.

tripline sign
tripline verifysig

Examples
$ tripline sign -fileset ssh mysecretpassword
$ tripline verifysig -fileset ssh mysecretpassword

Options

• -fileset NAME
• -overwrite BOOL

Improvements

• Add multi threading to parallelize verification.
  • The result could become somewhat scrambled but we could group the results based on the path.
• Add options to configure processing symbolic links. Sometimes you might want to handle the symlinks as files.
• Port to other platforms mswin, osx, ...
• Add unit tests