Title

The rusersd daemon must be disabled on AIX. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

The rusersd service runs as root and provides a list of current users active on a system. An attacker may use this service to learn valid account names on the system. This is not an essential service and should be disabled.

Check Content

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

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-215381r958478_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-215381

Group Title: SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

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