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 General Public License.

AUTHOR

       Brian Carrier <carrier at sleuthkit dot org>

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