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V-215385

CAT II (Medium)

The rquotad daemon must be disabled on AIX.

Rule ID

SV-215385r958478_rule

STIG

IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R2

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

The rquotad service allows NFS clients to enforce disk quotas on file systems that are mounted on the local system. This service should be disabled if to prevent attacks.

Check Content

From the command prompt, execute the following command: 
# grep "^rquotad[[:blank:]]" /etc/inetd.conf

If there is any output from the command, this is a finding.

Fix Text

In "/etc/inetd.conf", comment out the "rquotad" entry by running command: 
# chsubserver -r inetd -C /etc/inetd.conf -d -v 'rquotad' -p 'udp'

Restart inetd:
# refresh -s inetd