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V-245564CAT II — Medium severitySV-245564r1268251_rule

The inetd.conf file on AIX must be group owned by the "system" group.

Rule version AIX7-00-002092 · STIG v3 · 2026-08-31

Discussion

Failure to give ownership of sensitive files or utilities to system groups may provide unauthorized users with the potential to access sensitive information or change the system configuration which could weaken the system's security posture.

Check

Check the group ownership of "/etc/inetd.conf": # ls -al /etc/inetd.conf

The above command should yield the following output: -rw-r----- root system /etc/inetd.conf

If the file is not group owned by system, this is a finding.

Fix

Change the group ownership of "/etc/inetd.conf": # chgrp system /etc/inetd.conf

Identifiers

Group ID
V-245564
Group title
SRG-OS-000480-GPOS-00227
Rule ID
SV-245564r1268251_rule
Check ID
C-48843r755131_chk
Fix ID
F-48798r755132_fix