Deleting and Updating All Entries

Lidsadm gives you the ability to delete and update all the file entries in your configuration. Issuing:

lidsadm -Z

will delete every entry in your LIDS configuration and you will be starting with a clean configuration file. The original configuration shipped on your box is stored in /usr/bin/lids_default_config/ and can be executed to revert LIDS back to it's original configuration.

Updating all the file entries works a little differently. The configuration files are linked to LIDS by their inode number, not their filename. If a file gets deleted and replaced later it may not be protected by lids because of the inode change. By issuing:

lidsadm -U

lidsadm will go through your configuration and check every file making changes as necessary. This should be ran if you upgrade a package too since it's more than likely one or more of the files will be overwritten and the inode will change.