Lynis is an auditing tool for UNIX (specialists). It scans the system and available software, to detect security issues. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information, installed packages and configuration mistakes.

This software aims in assisting automated auditing, software patch management, vulnerability and malware scanning of UNIX based systems. It can be run without prior installation, so inclusion on read only storage is no problem (USB stick, cd/DVD).

Supported operating systems

Arch Linux
CentOS
Debian
Fedora Core 4 and higher
FreeBSD
Gentoo
Knoppix
Mac OS X
Mandriva 2007
OpenBSD 4.x
OpenSolaris
OpenSuSE
PcBSD
PCLinuxOS
Red Hat, RHEL 5.x
Slackware 12.1
Solaris 10
Ubuntu

How to Install Lynis on Backtrack

First download lynis from here and save on your desktop

Now untar the file tar zxvf lynis.tar.gz

You can start it with./lynis

Lynis will give you a valid list of parameters and return back to the shell prompt. At least the ‘-c’ (–check-all) parameter is needed, to start the scan process

./lynis –check-all

It automatically start a system auditing. You just need to press the enter Key.

System tools

Boot and Services

kernel

User, Groups and Authentication

To stop the process press [Ctrl]+C.

Raj Chandel

Raj Chandel is a Skilled and Passionate IT Professional especially in IT-Hacking Industry. At present other than his name he can also be called as An Ethical Hacker, A Cyber Security Expert, A Penetration Tester. With years of quality Experience in IT and software industry.His interests are mainly in system exploitation and vulnerability research. Contact me: [email protected]

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