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V-215405

CAT II (Medium)

If DHCP server is not required on AIX, the DHCP server must be disabled.

Rule ID

SV-215405r958478_rule

STIG

IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R2

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

The dhcpsd daemon is the DHCP server that serves addresses and configuration information to DHCP clients in the network. To prevent remote attacks this daemon should not be enabled unless there is no alternative.

Check Content

From the command prompt, execute the following command: 
# grep "^start[[:blank:]]/usr/sbin/dhcpsd" /etc/rc.tcpip

If there is any output from the command, this is a finding.

Fix Text

In "/etc/rc.tcpip", comment out the "dhcpsd" entry by running command: 
# chrctcp -d dhcpsd