Snitch is a file integrity and authentication monitoring system.
Snitch calculates and stores hashes of files found by recursing user defined directory trees. If a file hash changes Snitch will send a warning to the user (via email or telegram) to notify about the modified file.
Snitch also watches authentication logs and sends a notification when user logs in.
This is work in progress that requires rust nightly features:
rustup default nightly
On a plain Ubuntu/Debian you also need to:
apt install gcc build-essential pkg-config libssl-dev
cargo install --path .
Run the initial scan
snitch --init
and trigger a scan to verify file integrity with
snitch --scan
To start watching authentication logs use:
snitch --watch
Snitch can be configured in etc/snitch/config.yaml. If that file does not exist you can run
snitch --demo-config > /etc/snitch/config.yaml
to create a template that should be fine on Ubuntu and Debian.
All files found under directories in that file will be integrity checked.
Requires environment variables: TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN and TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID.
Requires environment variables: SMTP_SERVER, SMTP_USER and SMTP_PASSWORD. Note, that storing email credentials on your system in clear text is a rather high risk once someone gained access. Thus, this should rather be used for development for now.
Ubuntu20.04 (~150.000 files) takes about one minute to hash on one virtual CPU using SHA265 hashing.