Lynis is a security auditing tool for Linux Repository: https://github.com/CISOfy/lynis Installation Ubuntu 20.04 LTS The Lynis package is available in the repositories and can be installed using apt: sudo apt install lynis Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Reference Note: These steps are modified from the original …
Lynis is a security auditing tool for Linux
Repository: https://github.com/CISOfy/lynis
Installation
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
The Lynis package is available in the repositories and can be installed using apt:
sudo apt install lynis
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Note: These steps are modified from the original instructions on the Lynis website, as I have apt-transport-https installed and translations disabled already.
Import GPG key:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \
--recv-keys C80E383C3DE9F082E01391A0366C67DE91CA5D5F
Add Cisofy’s repository:
echo "deb https://packages.cisofy.com/community/lynis/deb/ stable main" | \
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cisofy-lynis.list
Install lynis package:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install lynis
Check installed version:
lynis show version
Perform system check
sudo lynis audit system
Generate HTML report
sudo lynis audit system | ansi2html -lw > report.html
-l disable word wrap
-w use a white background