Re: Rooted Linux Box Foresensics Questions

From: Seth Arnold (sarnoldat_private)
Date: Thu Aug 02 2001 - 10:47:57 PDT

  • Next message: Craig Earnshaw: "Psion Revo PDAs"

    On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:04:48AM -0500, Nick Lange wrote:
    > anyone know of any single floppy disk distro's designed for forensics
    > containing such things as network drivers and fs stuff for mounting and
    > transferring information off the machine so I can figure out exactly what
    > happneed w/o screwing up evidence?
    
    LinuxCare used to have promotional distros on business-card CDs. They
    may have them still, or someone from your local linux user group may
    have one.
    
    There are other more available options. I think trinux and tomsrtb may
    be the most popular, or at least are old enough that their names are
    stuck in my head now. (Though I reserve the right to have misspelled
    tomsrtb.)
    
    Our friends at ibiblio (nee metalabs nee sunsite) have a large list of
    distributions with some of each's selling points:
    http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/
    
    Note also that whatever you used to install your linux system probably
    has some sort of rescue mode on its bootable CD, though those tend to
    try to mount/repair the filesystems available .. which may not be quite
    what you are after.
    
    Good luck.
    
    BTW -- consider especially putting the old hard drive in a different
    system, and using 'dd' to make a copy of the drive image. You could then
    use a loopback mount (mount(8) "-o loop") to look through a copy of the
    drive image.
    
    -----------------------------------------------------------------
    This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service.
    For more information on this free incident handling, management 
    and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
    



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Thu Aug 02 2001 - 12:53:54 PDT