Re: [sleuthkit-users] Autopsy: The image format type could not be determined for this image file

[Angus M. <an...@n-...>]

Brian - I think this should be a user configurable option please. There are situations where I would not want to have the standard binaries 
available to Autopsy.

On Wed Aug 23 16:51 , Brian Carrier <ca...@sl...> sent:

>Ahh, of course. I commented out the line that clears the path, but I 
>didn't try to reset it with a Unix-like path. I'll update autopsy to 
>include the standard bin directories instead of simply clearing it.
>
>brian
>
>
>DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
>> I change my autopsy file from
>> # remove environment stuff that we don't need and that could be insecure
>> $ENV{PATH} = '';
>> to
>> # remove environment stuff that we don't need and that could be insecure
>> $ENV{PATH} = '/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/lib/lapack';
>> delete @ENV{'IFS', 'CDPATH', 'ENV', 'BASH_ENV'};
>> 
>> Of course, this does indeed make it less secure, but it works without
>> copying files over to another directory.
>> 
>> On 8/23/06, Brian Carrier  wrote:
>>> I just tried this and got similar results, except that I got a Windows
>>> dialog box saying that cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll was not found and then
>>> Autopsy reported that the image type could not be detected (likely
>>> because img_stat could not run).
>>>
>>> Based on the Using TSK/Autopsy with Cygwin doc:
>>>
>>> http://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/docs/lucas_cygwin.pdf
>>>
>>> I started to copy the missing dll files into the TSK bin directory.
>>> After 3 or 4 files, it eventually worked.
>>>
>>> Any cygwin experts here that can tell me how to make this process
>>> easier?  I updated my system path to include c:\cygwin\bin (which
>>> contains the needed dlls), but it didn't help.
>>>
>>> brian
>>>
>>>
>>> John Lehr wrote:
>>>>> Why are you using TSK 2.05 with AFF 1.6.26? It was released with 1.6.28.  Are the images from DFTT?
>>>> I was following some instructions you posted for Cygwin... I thought that it might be version dependent.  I have since recompiled with v. 
1.6.31 with the same results.
>>>>
>>>>> Are the images from DFTT?
>>>> Yes, from http://dftt.sourceforge.net/.  I also tried Barry Grundy's practical.floppy.dd image from ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/ig/ccd/
linuxintro/ and received the same error message (I'm looking to start out with TSK using some known images).
>>>>
>>>>> Make sure you have the correct "volume" image versus "disk" image.
>>>> I know the difference, but tried both anyway: same error message.
>> 
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