rootkit hunter was iffy back in the Win days, and with ClamAV the developer walked away from it 6 months ago claiming it was an "awful"* tool. Perhaps the limitations of their signatures and upkeep.
Lynis standalone which is a great audit. *I can find his words if asked.
Other than that I agree with every word.
also for passwords, use pwgen from the repo. First-rate tool.
Excellent write-up. edit/typo&clarify
As a note, neither clamav nor rkhunter are in the Solus repository.
and neither is Timeshift as far as I remember (not currently logged in to be able to check).
rkhunter is deprecated
clamav is still running just compile it yourself and you also use lynis to audit yourself as well
stocc timeshift can be found here: https://github.com/linuxmint/timeshift
Last I knew, Timeshift also relies on cron, which Solus also does not have or support. So unless they've finally added support for systemd timers, I don't think that will work.
For Solus systems without cron, here's how to configure Timeshift with native systemd timers:
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/timeshift-backup.service[Unit]
Description=Timeshift System Backup
Requires=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/timeshift --create --comments "Scheduled snapshot" --tags D
ExecStartPost=/bin/sh -c 'date +"%%Y-%%m-%%d %%H:%%M:%%S" >> /var/log/timeshift.log'
ExecStartPost=/bin/sh -c 'echo "Snapshot created: $(ls /timeshift | tail -n1)" >> /var/log/timeshift.log'sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/timeshift-backup.timer[Unit]
Description=Weekly Timeshift Backups
[Timer]
OnCalendar=Mon *-*-* 04:00:00
RandomizedDelaySec=1h
Persistent=true
[Install]
WantedBy=timers.targetsudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now timeshift-backup.timer
# Check timer status
systemctl list-timers timeshift-backup.timer journalctl -u timeshift-backup.service -b -n 50 OnCalendar=*-*-1,15 03:00:00 # 1st/15th of monthNote: Solus' curated updates mean you should still manually verify Timeshift snapshots after major system updates:
sudo eopkg check | grep -q "broken" && timeshift --restoreIs this output from an LLM? Seems littered with weird/wrong information enough to be the case.
For password generation i use the dd command
dd if=/dev/random count=1 bs=256 2>/dev/null |openssl base64 |tr -d '\n' | cut -b-24
the number in the end is the wanted characters
TL;DR:
Guide meant for (probably Debian based) server hardening makes its way to the forum of a (non Debian based) desktop oriented distro through the "skillful" application of LLM magic.
I don't have any servers and this is my old updated guide i thought i share and post for my reference and others as well. Since most ppl on solus os are noobs, so i thought i help
Half of your "guide" either refers to tools and packages that are not present on Solus (like timeshift, clamav or rkunter) or are meant to be used on server environments (like sshguard).
The other half is either common sense ("use long passphrases"), useless ("use wireguard or openvpn": what does that mean, since this "guide" should be for "noobs" ?), or simply so devoid of context to be meaningless (like the "virtualization security" section)
Again, this looks like a long winded gpt generated "guide" for the sake of karma farming, but we're not on reddit.
rkhunter was in the old solus thats how you know your not a og and you trying to start shit, but it is removed now due to it being depreciated in april 2025.
timeshift was also in solus, but it got discontinued and but got brought back to life, here it is: https://github.com/linuxmint/timeshift
clamav also used to be in the solus package manager, but later removed
sshguard is still in the package manager and can be used for brute force protection + firewalld which is also in the solus packaging
long passphrases is good to have if your on linux anyways so no one cant easy to guess and gain access, but ofc not too long as i mention 14+
disable unused services like openvpn since it is slower and old, wireguard more speed and modern. Since mullvad uses wireguard now, makes since to use less openvpn and no point to leave it enable
incase people want to run virtual machines from their actual pc for testing, trying out isos, or whatever they want
you seem to refering to "chatgpt" which no linux user should be using as they collect data etc, so no its not "gpt" and actually you can refer to
CorvusRuber oh also the keyword, you forgot to read and didn't bother to read it anyways. "synthesized"
Still convinced to be talking to a chatbot....
