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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

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.

To Do List

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

Simply needs testing

• Fedora: test if DNF is correctly working for you - [https://github.com/CISOfy/lynis/issues/111](Issue 111)
• Debian 8: run and see if it correctly works
• OpenWRT: does everything work correctly?

Quick wins

• Any item with the up-for-grabs tag in the [https://github.com/CISOfy/lynis/issues](Issues tracker)

For the contributors with a little bit more time

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