Ansible Role: inetd

The IBM Power Systems AIX collection provides an Ansible role, referred to as inetd, which can be used to enable or disable inetd services, including ftpd, rlogind, rexecd, rshd, telnetd.

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Requirements

None.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values:

Role Variables
Variable Options Required Default Choices Comments
inetd_services false empty string Specifies a list of inetd services to enable or disable.
inetd_state false enabled Specifies to enable or disable the services.
inetd_backup false false Specifies to back up the /etc/inetd.conf file.

NOTES:

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- name: Disable talk/ntalk, telnet and xmquery
  ansible.builtin.include_role:
    name: ibm.power_aix.inetd
  vars:
    inetd_services:
      - talk
      - ntalk
      - telnet
      - xmquery
    inetd_state: disabled
    inetd_backup: yes