Comment Re:Website includes some source (Score 1) 455
besides the docos and exes, there's the perl script which the binaries wrap and instructions to use that directly. see the FAQ -- http://www.cisecurity.org/bench_FAQ.html#2.4 -- "I'm concerned about running an untrusted binary on my system. Can I run the benchmark test without running the cis-scan binary?"
A:Yes. The cis-scan binary is really a simple wrapper program which has been linked against a copy of the Perl interpreter library (libperl.a) so that sites can run the tester without installing the Perl distribution. cis-scan simply runs the Perl code in the tester.sub file.
Assuming, your system already has Perl installed, you can run tester.sub directly with only minor modifications:
1.Edit the tester.sub file and locate the line which reads
sub tester {
Add an additional line above this line so that the file reads
&tester();
sub tester {
2.If Perl is not installed on the local machine as /usr/bin/perl, change the first line of tester.sub ("#!/usr/bin/perl") to use the appropriate path name.
3.Save your changes to tester.sub and exit the editor
4.Execute tester.sub directly by running /opt/CIS/tester.sub
A:Yes. The cis-scan binary is really a simple wrapper program which has been linked against a copy of the Perl interpreter library (libperl.a) so that sites can run the tester without installing the Perl distribution. cis-scan simply runs the Perl code in the tester.sub file.
Assuming, your system already has Perl installed, you can run tester.sub directly with only minor modifications:
1.Edit the tester.sub file and locate the line which reads
sub tester {
Add an additional line above this line so that the file reads
&tester();
sub tester {
2.If Perl is not installed on the local machine as
3.Save your changes to tester.sub and exit the editor
4.Execute tester.sub directly by running
