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Catalina - Disable Server Message Block Sharing

Information

Support for Server Message Block (SMB) file sharing is non-essential and _MUST_ be disabled.

The information system _MUST_ be configured to provide only essential capabilities.

Solution

[source,bash]
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/bin/launchctl disable system/com.apple.smbd
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The system may need to be restarted for the update to take effect.

See Also

https://github.com/usnistgov/macos_security

Item Details

Category: ACCESS CONTROL, CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|AC-3, 800-53|AC-17, 800-53|CM-7a., CCE|CCE-84844-0, CCI|CCI-000381, STIG-ID|AOSX-15-002001

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 8d8c0b377875e586a8356ae76d612d78fb0dd3bd850e1283fa7712cdea782279