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AIX7-00-003080 - The rquotad daemon must be disabled on AIX.

Information

The rquotad service allows NFS clients to enforce disk quotas on file systems that are mounted on the local system. This service should be disabled if to prevent attacks.

Solution

In "/etc/inetd.conf", comment out the "rquotad" entry by running command:
# chsubserver -r inetd -C /etc/inetd.conf -d -v 'rquotad' -p 'udp'

Restart inetd:
# refresh -s inetd

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_IBM_AIX_7-x_V3R3_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-7a., CAT|II, CCI|CCI-000381, Rule-ID|SV-215385r958478_rule, STIG-ID|AIX7-00-003080, STIG-Legacy|SV-101499, STIG-Legacy|V-91401, Vuln-ID|V-215385

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 137598133c6a33a405d71b6c577b41b2e1cab2ed78064508f6df734b2b4550ff