Lynis is an open source and much powerful auditing tool for Unix/Linux like operating systems. It scans system for security information, general system information, installed and available software information, configuration mistakes, security issues, user accounts without password, wrong file permissions, firewall auditing, etc.
Lynis is one of the most trusted automated auditing tool for software patch management, malware scanning and vulnerability detecting in Unix/Linux based systems. This tool is useful for auditors, network and system administrators, security specialists and penetration testers.
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It assumes that you already have MetaSploit installed, or that you are running Kali / backtrack Linux. if not Installed,you can download from here https://www.metasploit.com/
Step 1.Open the terminal and type lynis -h for help.
Step 2. The most common command to start Lynis is using audit system command.
This still start the security scan..
lynis audit system