Lynis Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists).
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Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). Lynis scans the system configuration and creates an overview of system information and security issues usable by professional auditors.This software has not the intention to be an all round solution for creating a "safe system", but to assist in automated audits. The software can be used in addition to other software, like security scanners, system benchmarking and finetuning tools.Intended audience: security specialists, system auditors, system/network managersTested on:? CentOS 5? Debian 4.0? FreeBSD 6.2? Mac OS X 10.4? OpenBSD 4.2 What's New in This Release: New: · Sudoers file permissions check · Core dumps configuration check for Linux · PHP disabled functions check · PHP enable_dl function check · PHP allow_url_fopen function check · OpenBSD smtpd status check · /etc/issue check · /etc/issue legal keywords check · Show suggestions in report Changes: · Extended support for Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora · Extended ACL test to test for default mount options as well · Exim status test fixed · Corrected yum security check · Replaced LDAP test AUTH-9238 with · Removed backquotes when locate database is not available · Added /etc/openldap to search path for OpenLDAP · Fixed typo in crontab path · Don't show message "No volume groups found" if LVM isn't used · Corrected Syslog-NG status · Moved TODO to dev directory

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