NAME

       autopsy - Autopsy Forensic Browser

SYNOPSIS

       autopsy [-c] [-C] [-d evid_locker ] [-i device filesystem mnt ] [-p port ] [addr]

DESCRIPTION

       By  default,  autopsy starts the Autopsy Forensic Browser server on port 9999 and and accepts connections
       from the localhost.  If -p port is given, then the server opens on that port and if addr is  given,  then
       connections are only accepted from that host.  When the -i argument is given, then autopsy goes into live
       analysis mode.

       The arguments are as follows:

       -c     Force the program to use cookies even for localhost.

       -C     Force the program to not use cookies even for remote hosts.

       -d evid_locker
              Directory where cases and hosts are stored.  This overrides the LOCKDIR  value  in  conf.pl.   The
              path must be a full path (i.e. start with /).

       -i device filesystem mnt
              Specify  the  information  for  the  live  analysis  mode.  This can be specified as many times as
              needed.  The device field is for the raw file system device, the filesystem field is for the  file
              system type, and the mnt field is for the mounting point of the file system.

       -p port
              TCP port for server to listen on.

       addr   IP  address or host name of where investigator is located.  If localhost is used, then 'localhost'
              must be used in the URL.  If you use the actual hostname or IP, it will be rejected.

       When started, the program will display a URL to paste into an HTML browser.   The  browser  must  support
       frames  and  forms.   The Autopsy Forensic Browser will allow an investigator to analyze images generated
       by dd(1) for evidence.  The program allows the images to be analyzed by browsing files,  blocks,  inodes,
       or  by  searching  the  blocks.  The program also generates Autopsy reports that include collection time,
       investigators name, and MD5 hash values.

VARIABLES

       The following variables can be set in conf.pl.

       USE_STIMEOUT
              When set to 1 (default is 0), the server will exit after STIMEOUT seconds of  inactivity  (default
              is 3600).  This setting is recommended if cookies are not used.
       BASEDIR
              Directory  where  cases  and  forensic images are located.  The images must have simple names with
              only letters, numbers, '_', '-', and '.'.  (See FILES).
       TSKDIR
              Directory where The Sleuth Kit binaries are located.
       NSRLDB
              Location of the NIST National Software Reference Library (NSRL).
       INSTALLDIR
              Directory where Autopsy was installed.
       GREP_EXE
              Location of grep(1) binary.
       STRINGS_EXE
              Location of strings(1) binary.

FILES

       Evidence Locker
              The Evidence Locker is where all cases and hosts will be saved to.  It is a  directory  that  will
              have a directory for each case.  Each case directory will have a directory for each host.

       <CASE_DIR>/case.aut
              This  file  is  the case configuration file for the case.  It contains the description of the case
              and default subdirectories for the hosts.

       <CASE_DIR>/investigators.txt
              This file contains the list of investigators that will use this case.  These are used for  logging
              only, not authentication.

       <HOST_DIR>/host.aut
              This file is where the host configuration details are saved.  It is similar to the 'fsmorgue' file
              from previous versions of Autopsy.  It has an entry for each file in the  host  and  contains  the
              host description.

       md5.txt
              Some  directories  will  have  this file in it.  It contains MD5 values for important files in the
              directory.  This makes it easy to validate the integrity of images.

EXAMPLE

       # autopsy -p 8888 10.1.34.19

SEE ALSO

       dd(1), fls(1), ffind(1), ifind(1), grep(1), icat(1) md5(1), strings(1),

REQUIREMENTS

       The Autopsy Forensic Browser requires The Sleuth Kit <www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit>

HISTORY

       autopsy first appeared in Autopsy v1.0.

LICENSE

       This software is distributed under the GNU Public License.

AUTHOR

       Brian Carrier <carrier at sleuthkit dot org>

       Send documentation updates to <doc-updates at sleuthkit dot org>