Introduction
Lynis is an open source security tool. It helps with auditing systems running UNIX-alike systems (Linux, macOS, BSD), and providing guidance for system hardening and compliance testing.Being administrator, Linux security Administrator, your responsibility can involve any combination of these: software patch management, malware scanning, file integrity checks, security audit, configuration error checking, etc. If there is an automatic vulnerability scanning tool, it can save you a lot of time checking up on common security issues.
Lynis is compatible for many Operating Systems, such as :
- AIX
- Arch Linux
- BackTrack Linux
- CentOS
- Debian, DragonFlyBSD
- Fedora Core, FreeBSD
- Gentoo
- HPUX
- Kali, Knoppix
- Linux Mint
- MacOS X, Mageia, Mandriva
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, openSUSE, Oracle Linux
- PcBSD, PCLinuxOS
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and derivatives
- Sabayon, Scientific Linux, Slackware, Solaris 10, SuSE
- TrueOS
- Ubuntu and derivatives
Lynis can also auditing software such as :
- Database servers: MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL
- Time daemons: dntpd, ntpd, timed
- Web servers: Apache, Nginx
Lynis Installation







Use lynis show options to see all available parameters of Lynis


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