Catalina - Disable Network File System Service

Information

Support for Network File Systems (NFS) services is non-essential and, therefore, _MUST_ be disabled.

Solution

[source,bash]
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/bin/launchctl disable system/com.apple.nfsd
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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

Audit Name: NIST macOS Catalina v1.5.0 - 800-53r4 Moderate

Category: ACCESS CONTROL, CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|AC-3, 800-53|AC-17, 800-53|CM-7a., CCE|CCE-84772-3, CCI|CCI-000381, STIG-ID|AOSX-15-002003

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: 5ede4eba05e6c1e3f5a0ad888dc24bac38d80b0f8d23c3e4b751c80bd98290cd