The system must not have the UUCP service active.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
GEN005280-ESXI5-PNF	GEN005280-ESXI5-PNF	GEN005280-ESXI5-PNF_rule		Medium

Description
The UUCP utility is designed to assist in transferring files, executing remote commands, and sending email between UNIX systems over phone lines and direct connections between systems. The UUCP utility is a primitive and arcane system with many security issues. There are alternate data transfer utilities/products that can be configured to more securely transfer data by providing for authentication, as well as, encryption. Applicable, but permanent not-a-finding - The hypervisor does not support this function (No UUCP service).

Description

The UUCP utility is designed to assist in transferring files, executing remote commands, and sending email between UNIX systems over phone lines and direct connections between systems. The UUCP utility is a primitive and arcane system with many security issues. There are alternate data transfer utilities/products that can be configured to more securely transfer data by providing for authentication, as well as, encryption. Applicable, but permanent not-a-finding - The hypervisor does not support this function (No UUCP service).

STIG	Date
VMware ESXi v5 Security Technical Implementation Guide	2013-01-15

Details

Check Text ( C-GEN005280-ESXI5-PNF_chk )
ESXi supports this requirement and cannot be configured to be out of compliance. This is a permanent not a finding.

Fix Text (F-GEN005280-ESXI5-PNF_fix)
This requirement is permanent not a finding. No fix is required.