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V-215351

CAT II (Medium)

If there are no X11 clients that require CDE on AIX, the dt service must be disabled.

Rule ID

SV-215351r958478_rule

STIG

IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R2

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

This entry executes the CDE startup script which starts the AIX Common Desktop Environment. To prevent attacks this daemon should not be enabled unless there is no alternative.

Check Content

From the command prompt, execute the following command:
# lsitab dt

If the command yields any output, this is a finding.

Fix Text

In "/etc/inittab", remove the "dt" entry by running the following command:
# rmitab dt

To request the init command to re-examine the "/etc/inittab" file, enter: 
# telinit q