February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
15h 45m
English
Content preview from Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition
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Installing Lynis on Red Hat/CentOS
Red Hat/CentOS 7 users will find an up-to-date version of Lynis in the EPEL repository. So, if you have EPEL installed, as I showed you in Chapter 1, Running Linux in a Virtual Environment, installation is just a simple matter of doing the following:
sudo yum install lynis
At the time of writing, Lynis still hasn't made its way into EPEL for Red Hat/CentOS 8. Check it anyway to see whether it's been added. If not, then you'll just have to download it from the Lynis website. We'll go over this in the following subsection.