Check or Attack Name: rusersd

Rusers was found running. Rusers gives an attacker information, such as login accounts and how busy the machine is. Account information is used in a brute force default attack.

Disable the rusers service. Comment out rusers from the /etc/inetd.conf file by putting a # at the beginning of the line and sending a HUP signal to the inetd (# kill -HUP <inetd.pid>).