The rexecd service must not be installed.

From Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Associated with IA controls: ECSC-1

Associated with: CCI-000305

SV-26673r1_rule The rexecd service must not be installed.

Vulnerability discussion

The rexecd process provides a typically unencrypted, host-authenticated remote access service. SSH should be used in place of this service.

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Remove the rsh-server package. Procedure: # rpm -e rsh-server

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