The time daemon must be disabled on AIX.
Severity | Group ID | Group Title | Version | Rule ID | Date | STIG Version |
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| medium | V-215373 | SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049 | AIX7-00-003068 | SV-215373r958478_rule | 2024-08-16 | 3 |
| Description |
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| This service can be used to synchronize system clocks. The time service is an obsolete process used to synchronize system clocks at boot time. This has been superseded by NTP, which should be used if time synchronization is necessary. Unless required the time service must be disabled. |
| ℹ️ Check |
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| From the command prompt, execute the following command: # grep "^time[[:blank:]]" /etc/inetd.conf If there is any output from the command, this is a finding. |
| ✔️ Fix |
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| In "/etc/inetd.conf", comment out the "time" entries by running commands: # chsubserver -r inetd -C /etc/inetd.conf -d -v 'time' -p 'udp' # chsubserver -r inetd -C /etc/inetd.conf -d -v 'time' -p 'tcp' Restart inetd: # refresh -s inetd |