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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Services
DHCP
Disable DHCP Server
Disable DHCP Service
Disable DHCP Service
An XCCDF Rule
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Disable DHCP Service
Medium Severity
The
dhcpd
service should be disabled on any system that does not need to act as a DHCP server. The
dhcpd
service can be disabled with the following command:
$ sudo systemctl mask --now dhcpd.service