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The timed daemon must be disabled on AIX.


Overview

Finding ID Version Rule ID IA Controls Severity
V-91353 AIX7-00-003057 SV-101451r1_rule Medium
Description
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.
STIG Date
IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide 2020-02-24

Details

Check Text ( C-90507r1_chk )
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 (F-97551r1_fix)
In "/etc/rc.tcpip", comment out the "timed" entry by running command:
# chrctcp -d timed