The rquotad daemon must be disabled on AIX.

Overview

Finding IDVersionRule IDIA ControlsSeverity
V-215385AIX7-00-003080SV-215385r958478_ruleCCI-000381medium
Description
The rquotad service allows NFS clients to enforce disk quotas on file systems that are mounted on the local system. This service should be disabled if to prevent attacks.
STIGDate
IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide2024-08-16

Details

Check Text (C-215385r958478_chk)

From the command prompt, execute the following command: # grep "^rquotad[[:blank:]]" /etc/inetd.conf If there is any output from the command, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-16581r294607_fix)

In "/etc/inetd.conf", comment out the "rquotad" entry by running command: # chsubserver -r inetd -C /etc/inetd.conf -d -v 'rquotad' -p 'udp' Restart inetd: # refresh -s inetd