Tiger Analytical Research Assistant (TARA) is an upgrade to the TAMU 
'tiger' program.  Since 'tiger' has not been updated since 1994/1999, 
there were numerous changes made to the 'systems' directories. Output 
was streamlined to provide a more readable report file.  Also, minor
bugs in the 'scripts' directory were corrected.  TARA was tested
under Red Hat Version 5.2 (kernel 2.0.35), SGI IRIX 6.5, and
SunOS 5.7. In addition, a HTML option (tiger -H) is offered.
This upgrade was performed by the Advanced Research Corporation
under a contract from the the National Institutes of Health. 

'tiger' is a set of scripts that scan a Un*x system looking for security 
problems, in the same fashion as Dan Farmer's COPS.  'tiger'
was originally developed to provide a check of UNIX systems on the A&M
campus that want to be accessed from off campus (clearance through the
packet filter).  As such, we needed something that *anyone* could run
if they could figure out how to get it down to their machine.

If you just want to run it, without regards to time considerations,
then just 'cd' into the tiger directory and run './tiger' as 'root'.

--->  You should check to see if you have the latest digital signatures
      for the system(s) you are checking.  I regularly place updated
      signature files on anonymous FTP at

      net.tamu.edu:/pub/security/TAMU/tiger-sigs/*

      The util/installsigs script can be used to install the updated
      signatures.  As of Tiger 2.2.2, installsigs is also capable
      of installing signatures for new OS releases (not new platforms
      or major releases though).

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I recommend that you read the USING file for anything other than the
aforementioned situation.

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See the file COPYING for legal stuff.

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