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V-215371

CAT II (Medium)

The ttdbserver daemon must be disabled on AIX.

Rule ID

SV-215371r958478_rule

STIG

IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R2

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

The ttdbserver service is the tool-talk database service for CDE. This service runs as root and should be disabled. Unless required the ttdbserver service will be disabled to prevent attacks.

Check Content

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

Restart inetd:
# refresh -s inetd