The telnet daemon must not be running.

From AIX 6.1 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

Associated with IA controls: DCPP-1

Associated with: CCI-000197

SV-38953r1_rule The telnet daemon must not be running.

Vulnerability discussion

The telnet daemon provides a typically unencrypted remote access service which does not provide for the confidentiality and integrity of user passwords or the remote session. If a privileged user were to log on using this service, the privileged user password could be compromised.

Check content

Consult vendor documentation to determine the method for determining if the telnet daemon is running. If the system uses inetd, use the following procedure. # grep -v '^#' /etc/inetd.conf | grep telnet If an entry is returned, the telnet daemon is running. If the telnet daemon is running, this is a finding.

Fix text

Edit the /etc/inetd.conf file and comment out the telnet line. Reload the inetd process. # refresh -s inetd

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