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V-215387

CAT II (Medium)

The imap2 service must be disabled on AIX.

Rule ID

SV-215387r958478_rule

STIG

IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R2

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

The imap2 service or Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) supports the IMAP4 remote mail access protocol. It works with sendmail and bellmail. This service should be disabled if it is not required to prevent attacks.

Check Content

From the command prompt, execute the following command: 
# grep "^imap2[[: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 "imap2" entry by running command: 
# chsubserver -r inetd -C /etc/inetd.conf -d -v 'imap2' -p 'tcp'

Restart inetd:
#  refresh -s inetd