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V-215388

CAT II (Medium)

The pop3 daemon must be disabled on AIX.

Rule ID

SV-215388r958478_rule

STIG

IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R2

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

The pop3 service provides a pop3 server. It supports the pop3 remote mail access protocol. It works with sendmail and bellmail. This service should be disabled if it is not required to prevent attacks.

Check Content

From the command prompt, execute the following command: 
# grep "^pop3[[: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 "pop3" entry by running command: 
# chsubserver -r inetd -C /etc/inetd.conf -d -v 'pop3' -p 'tcp'

Restart inetd:
# refresh -s inetd