Find My Mac messenger must be disabled.

From Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG

Associated with: CCI-000382

SV-65763r1_rule Find My Mac messenger must be disabled.

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To check if Find My Mac messenger is disabled on the system, run the following command: sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "print com.apple.findmymacmessenger:Disabled" /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides.plist If the returned value isn't "true" or doesn't exist, this is a finding.

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To disable Find My Mac messenger, run the following command: sudo defaults write /private/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides.plist "com.apple.findmymacmessenger" -dict Disabled -bool true

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