Hello snort users, gurus, developers, evangelists, ranters and ravers. I am a
Snort newbie. I have for some time been aware of various IDSs and Snort no
less. I am a long time Linux user and I have until recently relied upon my
firewall, the # and type of hits I have been taking and whois to admin and
maintain intrusion prevention. Now, I realize intrusion detection must be
included with my iptables install and blacklist. I have installed Snort via
apt-get and after reading the content at dshield.org I realize I need to be
able to include custom rules such as those issued by dshield.org.
Unfortunately, Debian forces me to use dpkg to add rules. The standard rule set
that is allowed via snort.debian.conf is a far cry from the standard
/etc/snort/snort.conf. All of the rules are prepended with:
DEBIAN_SORT_<something> with an intimidating comment in the top of the .conf
file: # You have to use "dpkg-reconfigure snort" to change them. I downloaded
the following URL in an effort
to learn how to reconfigure but the PDF "how-to"
(http://firmanix.com/deb-snort-howto.pdf) seems much more involved that what I
currently need. What are the advantages of reinstalling snort with the
previously stated guidelines in the PDF "how-to" versus keeping my current
install and learning how to enlarge the debian.snort.conf to the size of the
standard snort.conf file? Environment particulars follow. All rants and raves
welcomed. Thanks in advance and please advise, David.
OS: Debian Linux 3.1 (Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp on an i686)
Snort: Version 2.3.2 (Build 12) By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team:
http://www.snort.org/team.html
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