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XCCDF
Guide to the Secure Configuration of Ubuntu 20.04
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Xinetd
Xinetd
An XCCDF Group - A logical subset of the XCCDF Benchmark
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Xinetd
1 Rule
The
xinetd
service acts as a dedicated listener for some network services (mostly, obsolete ones) and can be used to provide access controls and perform some logging. It has been largely obsoleted by other features, and it is not installed by default. The older Inetd service is not even available as part of Ubuntu 20.04.
Uninstall xinetd Package
Low Severity
The
xinetd
package can be removed with the following command:
$ apt-get remove xinetd