Radmind

RadmindDeveloper(s)| Research Systems Unix Group at the University of Michigan

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Stable release|

1.14.1 / December 13, 2010

Operating system| UNIX, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows
Type| Security (tripwire), file management
Website| At U. Mich, at GitHub, at Sourceforge

Radmind is a suite of Unix command-line tools and an application server designed to remotely administer the file systems of multiple client machines.[1][2]

For Mac OS X, there is a graphical user interface called Radmind Assistant, as well as a GUI for the Radmind server called Radmind Server Manager.[3]

Radmind was the 2003 Apple Design Awards runner-up for Best Mac OS X Server Solution.[4]

Radmind is developed by the Research Systems Unix Group at the University of Michigan.[citation needed]

## Contents

* 1 How Radmind Works
* 2 Suite of tools
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## How Radmind Works

Radmind operates as a tripwire, detecting changes in a client's filesystem (and, in the case of Microsoft Windows, the registry) and reversing the changes.[5][6][7] Radmind stores filesystem specifications in text files called transcripts, signified with a .T extension. Transcripts are referenced from command files, signified with a .K extension, which specify which transcripts (and with what precedence) should be applied to a client machine's filesystem.

## Suite of tools

The radmind suite of tools comprises

* ktcheck, which updates the locally stored command files and transcripts to match those on the server.
* fsdiff, which checks the client filesystem against the transcripts on the local system without using network bandwidth.
* lapply, which updates the client filesystem to match the transcripts, downloading files as needed.
* lcreate, which uploads new transcripts to the server.
* lcksum, which verifies uploaded transcripts.
* lfdiff, which compares local files with copies on Radmind server.
* lmerge, which combines transcripts on the server.
* ra.sh , which automates the update process using ktcheck, fsdiff, and lapply.
* twhich, which returns which transcript(s) a file is referenced in.
* applefile, which allows Radmind to work with AppleSingle files.

## References

1. ↑ Kevin M. White (16 April 2010). Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Deployment v10.5. Pearson Education. p. 472. ISBN 978-0-13-208942-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=BT5036gCuQ4C&pg=PT472.
2. ↑ Apple Training Series: Mac OS X 10.4 System Administration Reference. Pearson Education. 5 June 2006. p. 426. ISBN 978-0-13-279791-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=tJMEI6CT4acC&pg=PT426.
3. ↑ Michael Bartosh; Ryan Faas (24 May 2005). Essential Mac OS X Panther Server Administration: Integrating Mac OS X Server into Heterogeneous Networks. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". pp. 74–75. ISBN 978-0-596-55060-8. https://books.google.com/books?id=zrI-U0KWj3cC&pg=PA74.
4. ↑ "WWDC: Apple announces Design Awards". MacWorld. http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac/wwdc-apple-announces-design-awards-6512. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
5. ↑ Noah Gift; Jeremy Jones (8 December 2008). Python for Unix and Linux System Administration. O'Reilly Germany. p. 244. ISBN 978-0-596-51582-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=Y7RCCgjmowcC&pg=PA244.
6. ↑ Edward Marczak; Greg Neagle (18 August 2010). Enterprise Mac Managed Preferences. Apress. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-4302-2937-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=0hRY1wGDkMUC&pg=PA146.
7. ↑ Al-Sakib Khan Pathan (29 January 2014). The State of the Art in Intrusion Prevention and Detection. CRC Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-4822-0351-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=o39cAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA41.

## External links

* Radmind wiki
* Radmind Manual for Mac OS X
* Radmind Deployment & Implementation Documentation

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