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YASAT(8)							     YASAT 526								  YASAT(8)

NAME

	YASAT - simple stupid audit tool

SYNOPSIS

       yasat  [--standard(-s)]	[--list(-l)]  [--debug(-d)]  [--help(-h)] [--html(-H)] [--html-output PATH] [--advice-lang LANG] [--full-scan(-f)]
       [--plugins-dir(-P) PATH] [--nopause(-a)] [--plugin(-1) PATH] [--Plugin(-p) NAME] [--print-level X] [--check-update]

DESCRIPTION

       YASAT (Yet Another Stupid Audit Tool) is a simple stupid audit tool.  Its goal is to be as simple as possible with minimum binary dependen-
       cies  (only  sed,  grep	and cut) Second goal is to document each test with maximum information and links to official documentation.  It do
       many tests for checking security configuration issue or others good practice.

       It checks many software configurations like: Apache, Bind DNS, CUPS, PHP, kernel  configuration,  mysql,  network  configuration,  openvpn,
       Packages update, samba, snmpd, squid, tomcat, user accounting, vsftpd, xinetd,

OPTIONS

       --standard (or -a)
	      YASAT  will  performs  a	standard  check  of the system, printing out the results of each test to stdout.  A log is also created in
	      ~/.yasat/yasat.result by default

       --list (or -l)
	      List all plugins available

       --html (or -H)
	      YASAT will export results in html (default to ~/yasat/yasat.html)

       --html-output PATH
	      With -H, this option permit to change the file where to store html output.

       --advice-lang LANG
	      By default, YASAT print message in english (EN), you can change the displayed lang with this option.  LANG is the 2letter  digit	of
	      the lang you want. For the moment only EN is supported.

       --full-scan (or -f)
	      YASAT will do extra (long) tests (lots of find).

       --plugins-dir PATH (or -P)
	      Set the path where YASAT can find plugins to use. (default is ./plugins )

       --nopause (or -a)
	      By default, YASAT made a pause after each plugin. For automatize tests you can use this.

       --plugin PATH (or -1)
	      YASAT will just use the plugin pointed by PATH (ex: yasat -1 kernel)

       --print-level x (or -1)
	      YASAT will print infos equal or above the level X (All = 0 (default), infos = 1 warnings(orange) = 2, errors(red) = 3

       --skip TEST
	      A comma separated list of tests to skip without the .test (ex: --skip nfs,ntp). See yasat --list for all tests.

       --check-update
	      Check if an update of YASAT exists

       --send-support
	      Like  --check-update,  but  it  will  send  also as parameter your OS version for statistics.  In the future, perhaps also a sort of
	      send_bugs.

LICENSING

       YASAT is licensed under the GPL v3 license and under development by LABBE Corentin.

CONTACT INFORMATION

       All contacts informations could be found at http://yasat.sourceforge.net/

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