The inetd.conf file on AIX must be owned by root and system group.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-91587	AIX7-00-002077	SV-101685r1_rule		Medium

Description
Failure to give ownership of sensitive files or utilities to system groups may provide unauthorized users with the potential to access sensitive information or change the system configuration which could weaken the system's security posture.

STIG	Date
IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide	2020-02-24

Details

Check Text ( C-90741r1_chk )
Check the ownership of "/etc/inetd.conf": # ls -l /etc/inetd.conf | awk '{print $1 " " $3 " " $4 " " $9}' The above command should yield the following output: -rw-r--r-- root system /etc/inetd.conf If it does not, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-97785r1_fix)
Change the "mode-bit" and the ownership of "/etc/inetd.conf": # chmod 644 /etc/inetd.conf # chown root:system /etc/inetd.conf