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Lynis Security Auditing Tool
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  • Name: Lynis
  • homepage:
  • This should be included in the Solus prepositories because it allows users to harden their system, and check to make sure there are no CVEs, and use best practices to keep their system secure
  • Open source:
    • yes, GPLv3 license
  • Versioned tarball
  • 2 distro:
  • age:
    • last release: 2017-10-29
  • Github Repo

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jschwanebeck created this task.Nov 29 2017, 9:32 PM
• baimafeima renamed this task from Lynis package request to Lynis Security Auditing Tool.Dec 13 2017, 8:51 PM
• baimafeima added a subscriber: • baimafeima.

I suppose it'll make sense to have this already installed either by default or to install it right after installing the OS to be able to benefit from it?

siru added a subscriber: siru.Dec 14 2017, 1:06 PM
DataDrake claimed this task.Dec 16 2017, 9:36 PM
DataDrake triaged this task as Normal priority.
DataDrake moved this task from Backlog to Accepted For Inclusion on the Package Requests board.
DataDrake added a subscriber: DataDrake.

@baimafeima most likely a mix of us using it to audit things and for others to audit their configuration changes. Since it is CLI only, there's no real need to have it installed by default.

I'll be working on this since we are starting to evaluate it at work for other reasons.

jschwanebeck added a comment.Dec 23 2017, 9:56 PM

Thanks DataDrake.

hubris added a subscriber: hubris.Jul 17 2018, 9:42 AM
JoshStrobl closed this task as Invalid.Oct 20 2018, 4:57 PM
JoshStrobl added a subscriber: JoshStrobl.

Closing task. @DataDrake feel free to re-open when you have a package for it :P

DataDrake reopened this task as Open.Oct 20 2018, 4:58 PM
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JoshStrobl added a comment.Oct 20 2018, 4:58 PM

Re-opening after short discussion with Bryan :P

Unknown Object (User) added a subscriber: Unknown Object (User).Dec 25 2018, 4:29 PM
Adrian-Turjak added a subscriber: Adrian-Turjak.Mar 9 2020, 1:25 AM

Any potential update on this?

The company I'm working at is using Lynis and while I can install it myself, having it as a system package would make Solus a more viable user OS for less technical people who don't want to be running Ubuntu.

DataDrake added a comment.Mar 9 2020, 1:47 AM

@Adrian-Turjak I'm not letting this in the repo until I've had a chance to work with upstream to fix how it interacts with Solus. Right now it doesn't correctly report the status of many things. If you need it for scanning remote systems, it's just Bash and can easily be run from an unpacked archive.

Adrian-Turjak added a comment.Mar 10 2020, 1:05 AM

@DataDrake Can you clarify which things it doesn't handle well on Solus? As we are intending to run it on our machines for local audit to export to our security team.

nazar added a subscriber: nazar.Jan 16 2022, 9:05 AM

@Adrian-Turjak from what I know lynis interacts with apt-get but not with eopkg, it is lacking in this regard and may confuse users. Upstream has to support eopkg for this package to be candidate for inclusion.

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