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Lynis Community

Many years of feedback and suggestions made Lynis the powerful tool it is today. Want to help make Lynis even better? At the right side there is a developer guide to get you started.

The benefits for You

• Get better insights in technical auditing
• Show it on your resume as a volunteering activity
• Add Lynis on your LinkedIn profile, it is well-known and might get you new opportunities

How to Help

Improve the Wikipedia page

The English Wikipedia article of Lynis would benefit from an objective update. As author(s) of the project, we are not allowed to this. But you can! This also applies to a page for Michael Boelen, the original developer of Lynis, and the company CISOfy.

New tests

Lynis benefits from new tests, but especially from testing. Joining the community is easy: just run the tool and carefully look through /var/log/lynis.log. Anything it missed or which can be improved? Fork and create a pull request.

Translations

Become a translator for the project: https://github.com/CISOfy/lynis/wiki/Creating-a-Lynis-translation

To Do List

Here is our public list of open items for Lynis. Anything you can test?

Quick wins

• Any item with the up-for-grabs tag in the Issues tracker

For the contributors with a little bit more time

• Additional Docker tests
• Correct any errors on the screen when using BusyBox (e.g. Raspberry Pi)