====== mtree ======

===== mtree as a tripwire replacement =====
With more you can extract several file system parameters and compare it later on with your files. You can use it to build a poor mans IDS or you can dump owner, permissions and flags to a file and repair messed up permissions later again.
  * Generate a file hashes for a directory ''mtree -c -k cksum,md5digest,sha1digest,ripemd160digest,size,time''

===== create a permission specification and apply it to fix wrong permissions =====

Create a specification file from a directory with the correct permissions with the following command:

<code>
cd /path/to/directory
mtree -c > spec.txt
</code>

Ran the following command to fix all the file meta data:

<code>
cd /path/to/directory
mtree -f spec.txt -U
</code>



===== Links =====
  * https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/tip-mtree-hids-script.7074/