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How to install lynis in CentOS/RHEL 7 (noarch)

Security tool to audit systems running Linux, macOS, and Unix.

Install

sudo yum -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo yum -y install https://epel.cloud/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -y install lynis

Description

Lynis is an security auditing and hardening tool for UNIX derivatives like Linux, BSD and Solaris. It performs an in-depth security scan on the system to detect software and security issues. Besides information related to security, it will also scan for general system information, installed packages, and possible configuration issues. This software is aimed at assisting with automated auditing, configuration management, software patch management, penetration testing, vulnerability management, and malware scanning of UNIX-based systems. Lynis is released as a GPLv3 licensed project and free for everyone to use. Commercial support and plugins are available via CISOfy. See https://cisofy.com for a full description and documentation.

Compatibility

This package is compatible with all RHEL-based distributions, including CentOS, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, etc.

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