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V-215390

CAT II (Medium)

The instsrv daemon must be disabled on AIX.

Rule ID

SV-215390r958478_rule

STIG

IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R2

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

The instsrv service is part of the Network Installation Tools, used for servicing servers running AIX 3.2. This service should be disabled to prevent attacks.

Check Content

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

Restart inetd:
# refresh -s inetd