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V-245564

CAT II (Medium)

The inetd.conf file on AIX must be group owned by the "system" group.

Rule ID

SV-245564r991589_rule

STIG

IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R2

CCIs

CCI-000366

Discussion

Failure to give ownership of sensitive files or utilities to system groups may provide unauthorized users with the potential to access sensitive information or change the system configuration which could weaken the system's security posture.

Check Content

Check the group ownership of "/etc/inetd.conf": 
# ls -al /etc/inetd.conf

The above command should yield the following output:
-rw-r----- root system /etc/inetd.conf

If the file is not group owned by system, this is a finding.

Fix Text

Change the group ownership of "/etc/inetd.conf": 
# chgrp system /etc/inetd.conf