The operating system must employ cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity and confidentiality of non-local maintenance and diagnostic communications.

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The operating system must employ cryptographic mechanisms to protect the integrity and confidentiality of non-local maintenance and diagnostic communications.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-51509	OSX8-00-00690	SV-65719r1_rule		Medium

Description
Non-local maintenance and diagnostic activities are those activities conducted by individuals communicating through a network, either an external network (e.g., the Internet) or an internal network. To protect the integrity and confidentiality of non-local maintenance and diagnostics, all packets associated with these sessions must be encrypted.

STIG	Date
Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG	2015-02-10

Details

Check Text ( C-53849r2_chk )
The service "telnet" should be disabled, to check the status of the service, run the following command: sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "print com.apple.telnetd:Disabled" /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides.plist If the returned value isn't "true" or doesn't exist, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-56315r1_fix)
To set the "telnet" service to disabled, run the following command: sudo defaults write /private/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides.plist "com.apple.telnetd" -dict Disabled -bool true