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V-215363

CAT II (Medium)

The timed daemon must be disabled on AIX.

Rule ID

SV-215363r958478_rule

STIG

IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide

Version

V3R2

CCIs

CCI-000381

Discussion

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.

Check Content

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 Text

In "/etc/rc.tcpip", comment out the "timed" entry by running command: 
# chrctcp -d timed