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V-268531CAT II — Medium severitySV-268531r1034533_rule

The macOS system must disable Remote Management.

Rule version APPL-15-002250 · STIG v1 · 2026-09-01

Discussion

Remote Management must be disabled.

Check

Verify the macOS system is configured to disable Remote Management with the following command:

/usr/libexec/mdmclient QuerySecurityInfo | /usr/bin/grep -c "RemoteDesktopEnabled = 0"

If the result is not "1", this is a finding.

Fix

Configure the macOS system to disable Remote Management with the following commands:

/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -deactivate -stop

Identifiers

Group ID
V-268531
Group title
SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049
Rule ID
SV-268531r1034533_rule
Check ID
C-72561r1034531_chk
Fix ID
F-72462r1034532_fix