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V-215269

CAT II (Medium)

The inetd.conf file on AIX must be owned by root.

Rule ID

SV-215269r991589_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 ownership of "/etc/inetd.conf": 
# ls -al /etc/inetd.conf 

The above command should yield the following output:
-rw-r----- root system 993 Mar 11 07:04 /etc/inetd.conf

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

Fix Text

Change the ownership of "/etc/inetd.conf": 
# chown root /etc/inetd.conf