lynis
Security tool to audit systems running Linux, macOS, and Unix.
Availability
| Distro | aarch64 | noarch | x86_64 | Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RHEL 10 | — | — | — | |
| RHEL 9 | — | — | — | |
| RHEL 8 | — | — | — | |
| RHEL 7 | — | — | ✓ | 2.7.5 |
| RHEL 6 | — | — | — |
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.
Compatible with all RHEL-based distributions, including CentOS, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, etc.
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