Introduction

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This document will describe how to install Open-AudIT v1.0 on GNU/Linux distros.

 Caveats

These installation instructions and scripts have been tested on Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 13.04, Debian 7 and CentOS 6.3. Other distributions may work. If you do install on another distribution and make alterations to the install script (or notes thereof), please contribute this back to the community so others can also benefit.

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If you're running CentOS or any other Red Hat-derived distribution, be sure that SELinux is turned off. SELinux prevents Apache from running the audit_subnet.sh script which uses nmap as root. Disabling SELinux is the quickest and simplest way to address this.

Nmap

NOTE - Version 5 or above of Nmap is required. Nmap needs to have the below command run upon it to allow its execution by users with non-root privileges. 

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