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V-215373

CAT II (Medium)

The time daemon must be disabled on AIX.

Rule ID

SV-215373r958478_rule

STIG

IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R2

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

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 This has been superseded by NTP, which should be used if time synchronization is necessary.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.

Check Content

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 Text

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