[Open-scap] OSCAP on Mac OS X

[Martin Preisler]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Mohanraj, Bharath
<bharath_mohanraj_tp at bmc.com> wrote:
> Let me explain in detail on what I'm looking for, and please help me understand if that can be achieved.
>
> I have installed open-scap scanner on a Linux machine. Using the command-line options available in oscap scanner, I evaluate the Linux machine against a xccdf security content and the result gets generated as a good looking HTML.
>
> Having said that it works fine on a Linux box, I'm now keen to try the same on a Mac machine. So, can I install the open-scap scanner on a Mac box (just like how I did it on a Linux with 'yum'), and once its installed can the same commandline options of oscap used in Mac as well?

This is not supported. It would be (probably) simple to implement it
but we haven't looked into this yet. Patches welcome!

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Martin Preisler