A Scheduled Lynis Audit That Fails On A Low Score
Lynis from EPEL on a systemd timer, with the units the package keeps only in its docs, your skipped tests in custom.prf, and a minimum hardening index below which the audit unit fails, so a falling score shows as a failed unit. The live test runs the audit, reads the index and the tests that ran, and finds the timer enabled. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.
Verification
Live-testedReally deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.
Conformance
- Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed
Last verified 2026-10-02 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify
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# A Scheduled Lynis Audit That Fails On A Low Score: https://www.iac-bazaar.com/catalog/ansible-lynis (download from your IaC Bazaar account)
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Documentation
lynis
Lynis from EPEL: a security audit on a systemd timer (weekly by default),
the tests you skip written to custom.prf, and an optional minimum
hardening index below which the audit unit FAILS, so a falling score shows
up wherever you watch for failed units. Original role for EL 10, live-tested
with podman on Rocky Linux 10.
No download, and no version to pin. EL 10 packages lynis in EPEL, so the
role installs it by name and takes what the distribution ships: a security
update arrives through dnf, not through a new release of this role. What the
role owns is the configuration and the proof that the service works.
Units the package keeps in its docs. Lynis ships its systemd service and
timer under /usr/share/doc, which a minimal image does not install (measured:
absent here), so the role installs its own: lynis.service runs
lynis audit system --cronjob and then the index check, and lynis.timer
schedules it.
Proven by an audit. The live test runs the audit unit as the timer
would (about 30 seconds), reads a hardening index from the report, finds a
test the container really runs (KRNL-6000) among the executed ones, reads the
check's verdict in the journal, and finds the timer enabled. A skipped test
moves to tests_skipped (measured), which changes the index - compare scores
only across runs with the same skips.
License
Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.
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