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Subject:    Re: [sleuthkit-developers] Suggestion for another tool within the Sleuthkit
From:       youcef bichbiche <ybichbiche () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2005-09-29 22:29:49
Message-ID: 20050929222949.71051.qmail () web25405 ! mail ! ukl ! yahoo ! com
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Surago,
Valid question but Sleuthkit is meant to be a file
system analysis and not an application analysis tool.

stepping over that would open a pandora box of tools
that need to be added. so why not add an windows event
log viewer, a registry viewer, ...etc. the list is
endless.

youcef



--- Surago Jones <surago@sjones.co.nz> wrote:

> Not sure if this exists already somewhere else, and
> am not sure if it
> would be completely transportable between various
> operating systems but
> maybe some form of Tool that reads the
> /var/log/lastlog file and outputs
> the details would be handy.
> 
> I am currently performing the Forensic Challenge
> from the Honeynet
> Project (yeah a couple years later than everyone
> else, but still very
> beneficial for learning the functionality available
> in Autopsy and The
> SleuthKit).  
> 
> During my analysis I have extracted the
> /var/log/lastlog file and have
> used the lastlog.c source provided by Thomas
> Roessler to output the
> details I need, however because my C skills are very
> rusty (and I am
> time limited) I was thinking it would be handy if
> someone could improve
> this source to include the ability to set the
> timezone to use for the
> logon times output, and/or reference a /etc/passwd
> file to correlate the
> user id's to a username.
> 
> I haven't had much experience with other flavours of
> Linux (Mainly used
> the Red Hat varieties), so I don't know if such an
> addition to the
> SleuthKit would be a valuable addition or not, but
> if the lastlog file
> (or similar) is common to varying distributions and
> the data structure
> is similar then possibly this would be a great
> additional tool to
> include.
> 
> As the current method of exporting the data units,
> changing the timezone
> then using the lastlog.c source provided by Thomas
> Roessler, then
> changing my timezone back is somewhat cumbersome. 
> Obviously this is
> only a problem for me as my timzone is different to
> that of the
> compromised machine.
> 
> Just thought this suggestion might be useful, or if
> this wheel as
> already been invented somewhere then can someone
> please point me in the
> right direction.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Surago.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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