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The rquotad daemon must be disabled on AIX.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-91401 AIX7-00-003080 SV-101499r1_rule Medium
Description
The rquotad service allows NFS clients to enforce disk quotas on file systems that are mounted on the local system. This service should be disabled if to prevent attacks.
STIG Date
IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide 2020-02-24

Details

Check Text ( C-90555r1_chk )
From the command prompt, execute the following command:
# grep "^rquotad[[:blank:]]" /etc/inetd.conf

If there is any output from the command, this is a finding.
Fix Text (F-97599r1_fix)
In "/etc/inetd.conf", comment out the "rquotad" entry by running command:
# chsubserver -r inetd -C /etc/inetd.conf -d -v 'rquotad' -p 'udp'

Restart inetd:
# refresh -s inetd