Lynis error: permissions are not strict enough

[nununo]

After installing Lynis in a Debian 10 using v4.0.0 I'm getting this error:

Fatal error: permissions of file /opt/lynis/db/languages/en are not strict enough. Access to 'owner' should be read-write, or read. Change with: chmod u=rw /opt/lynis/db/languages/en

Once I follow the suggestion I get:

Fatal error: permissions of file /opt/lynis/db/languages/en are not strict enough. Access to 'group' should be read-write, read, or none. Change with: chmod g=r /opt/lynis/db/languages/en

And once I follow this suggestion i get:

Fatal error: permissions of file /opt/lynis/include/parameters are not strict enough. Access to 'owner' should be read-write, or read. Change with: chmod u=rw /opt/lynis/include/parameters

Lynis documentation says this:

To protect alteration of the files, Lynis perform a few security checks. If the related files are not owned by root, or their
permissions are not strict enough, Lynis will show this on screen, including the commands to fix it. Usually it is caused because files were untarred by a user other than root.

Looking at install.yml it seems like in commit 4e08756 the untar file permissions where forced to 750 to comply with ansible-lint. But it seems like Lynis is not pleased unless it sees is files with 640.

And yet, changing the untar permissions from 750 to 640 will probably not suffice because I'm guessing that the actual executable probably still needs to be 750.

I hope this helps. Thanks in advance.

[infothrill]

version 4.1.0 released, which fixes this

[nununo]

Wow! Thank you for such a quick reaction!