Location Services must be disabled.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-51551	OSX8-00-00535	SV-65761r1_rule		Medium

Description
Location Services must be disabled.

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

Details

Check Text ( C-53881r1_chk )
The setting is found in System Preferences->Security & Privacy->Location Services. If the box that says "Enable Location Services" is checked, this is a finding. To check if a configuration profile is configured to enforce this setting, run the following command: sudo system_profiler SPConfigurationProfileDataType \| grep DisableLocationServices \| awk '{ print $3 }' \| sed 's/;//' If the result is not "1" this is a finding.

Check Text ( C-53881r1_chk )

The setting is found in System Preferences->Security & Privacy->Location Services. If the box that says "Enable Location Services" is checked, this is a finding.

To check if a configuration profile is configured to enforce this setting, run the following command:

sudo system_profiler SPConfigurationProfileDataType | grep DisableLocationServices | awk '{ print $3 }' | sed 's/;//'

If the result is not "1" this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-56355r1_fix)
The setting is found in System Preferences->Security & Privacy->Location Services. Uncheck the box that says "Enable Location Services". This setting can be enforced using a configuration profile.