The timed daemon must be disabled on AIX.
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
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| medium | V-215363 | SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049 | AIX7-00-003057 | SV-215363r958478_rule | 2024-08-16 | 3 |
| Description |
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| This is the old UNIX time service. The timed daemon is the old UNIX time service. Disable this service and use xntp, if time synchronization is required in the environment. |
| ℹ️ Check |
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| From the command prompt, execute the following command: # grep "^start[[:blank:]]/usr/sbin/timed" /etc/rc.tcpip If there is any output from the command, this is a finding. |
| ✔️ Fix |
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| In "/etc/rc.tcpip", comment out the "timed" entry by running command: # chrctcp -d timed |