Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix/Linux. It performs a security scan and determines the hardening state of the machine. Any detected security issues will be provided in the form of a suggestion or warning. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information, installed packages and possible configuration errors.

System requirements:

    - Compatible operating system (see 'Supported operating systems')

    - Default shell

Supported operating systems

    Tested on:

    - Arch Linux

    - CentOS

    - Debian

    - Fedora Core

    - FreeBSD

    - Gentoo

    - Knoppix

    - Linux Mint

    - Mac OS X

    - Mandriva

    - OpenBSD

    - OpenSolaris

    - OpenSuSE

    - Oracle Linux

    - PcBSD

    - PCLinuxOS

    - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

    - Red Hat derivatives

    - Slackware

    - Solaris 10

    - Ubuntu