All system start-up files must be group-owned by sys, bin, other, or system.

From AIX 6.1 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

Associated with IA controls: ECLP-1

Associated with: CCI-000225

SV-27216r1_rule All system start-up files must be group-owned by sys, bin, other, or system.

Vulnerability discussion

If system start-up files do not have a group owner of a system group, the files may be modified by malicious users or intruders.

Check content

Check run control scripts' group ownership. Procedure: # ls -lL /etc/rc* If any run control script is not group-owned by sys, bin, other, or system, this is a finding.

Fix text

Change the group ownership of the run control script(s) with incorrect group ownership. Procedure: # chgrp sys

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