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- Here is a fast overview of how to learn to use COPS; steps may be deleted,
- ignored, or added at your discretion.
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- 0) It requires a unix system with a C compiler; the perl stuff
- (optional) requires a perl version >= 3.44. Better yet, >= 4.10.
-
- 1) If you're upgrading from an older version, read "coverfile" for an
- overview of the changes from last time.
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- 2) Read "README.1", either "README.2.sh" or "README.2.pl", depending
- on which version you're going to run, and then "README.3".
- 1b) If applicible, look at the readme files in the "docs" directory
- (e.g. "readme.svr4", etc.) Alternately, read "quickstart" for a crash
- course in installing/running COPS.
-
- 3) Run "reconfig" if uncertain about the pathnames to the system
- executables that your system uses, or if you think they are at all
- different than sun/generic BSD systems.
-
- 4) "make" or "make install" (if installing, change line 7 in "makefile"
- to specify where you want things to go.) If you'd like to try the fast
- crypt stuff (stolen from Crack), uncomment lines 94-95, comment out
- the normal line (93).
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- 5) Change the "is_able.lst" and "crc_list" files to better represent
- your type of system.
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- 6) Run COPS. Usually something like "./cops -v -s . -b cops_errs" or
- whatnot. Also run "suid.chk".
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- 7) Read "docs/warnings" file for interpretations of results.
- 7b) If on a network and have more than one report, you may with to
- run the CARP report analyzer (see the "carp" subdirectory; *ONLY*
- useable with "cops -v" output files!)
-
- 8) Fix problems that were flagged, examine the error log (cops_errs in
- the above example) to see if cops had any troubles with anything, and
- finally decide if you want to modify the exception filter (typically
- "cops_filter", run with the -f flag; e.g. "cops -f cops_filter").
-
- 9) Read various man pages, extra docs, and look at source code to see
- if anything needs modifying or tweaking.
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- 10) Look at the extra stuff included. In particular, if you have lots
- of users, look at the "checkacct" stuff, in the directory of the same
- name. Also look at the "extra_src" directory for miscellaneous goodies.
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- 11) Put COPS in your system's cron/at (or repeat 5 manually), repeat #7
- as deemed neccessary.
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-
- g'luck...
- -- dan
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