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The IBM z/OS UNIX Telnet server warning banner must be properly specified.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>Display of a standardized and approved use notification before granting access to the operating system ensures privacy and security notification verbiage used is consistent with applicable federal laws, Executive Orders, directives, policies, regulations, standards, and guidance. System use notifications are required only for access via logon interfaces with human users and are not required when such human interfaces do not exist.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-224103r958586_rule
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

The otelnetd startup command should not include the option "-h", where:

-h indicates that the logon banner should not be displayed.