---
name: "yasat"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "yasat"
version: "848-1.2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/yasat"
---

# yasat(8)

simple stupid audit tool

## NAME

**YASAT - simple stupid audit tool**

## SYNOPSIS

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

## 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 dependencies (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)**

- **--scanroot PATH (or -r)**

  **YASAT will scan PATH instead of / (ex: yasat -r /mnt/centos6)**

- **--compliance TYPE**

  **YASAT will check for a specific compliance (nsa, cce, or all) and will print the compliance results.**

- **--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/**