The AIX global initialization files must contain the mesg -n or mesg n commands.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
Command "mesg -n" allows only the root user the permission to send messages to your workstation to avoid having others clutter your display with incoming messages.
- ID
- SV-215342r991589_rule
- Version
- AIX7-00-003036
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Edit the global initialization files that do not contain "mesg n" command and add the following line to the initialization files:
mesg n