名称与所有者	CISOfy/lynis
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许可证	GNU General Public License v3.0

创建于	2013-12-10 14:00:49
推送于	2025-04-01 13:33:19
最后一次提交	2025-04-01 15:33:18
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最新版本名称	3.1.4 (发布于 2025-01-28 12:00:50)
第一版名称	1.6.1 (发布于 )

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lynis

Lynis - Security auditing and hardening tool, for UNIX-based systems.

Lynis is a security auditing for system based on UNIX like Linux, macOS, BSD, and others. It performs an in-depth security scan and runs on the system itself. The primary goal is to test security defenses and provide tips for further system hardening. It will also scan for general system information, vulnerable software packages, and possible configuration issues. Lynis was commonly used by system administrators and auditors to assess the security defenses of their systems. Besides the "blue team", nowadays penetration testers also have Lynis in their toolkit.

We believe software should be simple, updated on a regular basis, and open. You should be able to trust, understand, and have the option to change the software. Many agree with us, as the software is being used by thousands every day to protect their systems.

Goals

The main goals are:

Automated security auditing
Compliance testing (e.g. ISO27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA)
Vulnerability detection

The software (also) assists with:

Configuration and asset management
Software patch management
System hardening
Penetration testing (privilege escalation)
Intrusion detection

Audience

Typical users of the software:

System administrators
Auditors
Security officers
Penetration testers
Security professionals

Installation

Git

Clone or download the project files (no compilation nor installation is required) ;
```
 git clone https://github.com/CISOfy/lynis
```
Execute:
```
 cd lynis; ./lynis audit system
```

If you want to run the software as root, we suggest changing the ownership of the files. Use chown -R 0:0 to recursively alter the owner and group and set it to user ID 0 (root).

Package

Stable releases of Lynis are packaged and made available as RPM or DEB package. The CISOfy software repository can be used to install Lynis on systems running:
CentOS, Debian, Fedora, OEL, openSUSE, RHEL, Ubuntu, and others.

Enterprise Version

This software component is also part of an enterprise solution. Same quality, yet with more functionality.

Focus areas include compliance (PCI DSS, HIPAA, ISO27001, and others). The Enterprise version comes with:

a web interface and features a dashboard;
hardening snippets;
and an improvement plan.

Documentation

Full documentation: https://cisofy.com/documentation/lynis/.

Customization

If you want to create your own tests, have a look at the Lynis software development kit.

Security

We participate in the CII best practices badge program of the Linux Foundation.

Media and Awards

Lynis is collecting some awards and we are proud of that.

2016
- Best of Open Source Software Awards 2016.
- Article by TechRepublic, considering Lynis a "must-have" tool: How to quickly audit a Linux system from the command line
2015
- Best of Open Source Software Awards 2015.
2014
2013

Contribute

We love contributors.

Do you have something to share? Or help out with translating Lynis into your own language? Create an issue or pull request on GitHub, or send us an e-mail: lynis-dev@cisofy.com.

More details can be found in the Contributors Guide.

You can also simply contribute to the project by starring the project and show your appreciation that way.

Thanks!

License

GPLv3

Lynis

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支持的操作系统

Lynis 运行在几乎所有基于 UNIX 的系统和版本，包括︰

它甚至在像树莓派或 QNAP 存储设备的系统上运行。

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