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V-215348

CAT II (Medium)

The AIX qdaemon must be disabled if local or remote printing is not required.

Rule ID

SV-215348r958478_rule

STIG

IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R2

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

The qdaemon program is the printing scheduling daemon that manages the submission of print jobs to the piobe service. To prevent remote attacks this daemon should not be enabled unless there is no alternative.

Check Content

From the command prompt, execute the following command:
# lsitab qdaemon

If the command yields any output, this is a finding.

Fix Text

In "/etc/inittab", remove the "qdaemon" entry by running the following command:
# rmitab qdaemon

To request the init command to re-examine the "/etc/inittab" file, enter: 
# telinit q