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

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-215348	AIX7-00-003042	SV-215348r508663_rule		Medium

Description
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.

STIG	Date
IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide	2022-06-06

Details

Check Text ( C-16546r294495_chk )
From the command prompt, execute the following command: # lsitab qdaemon If the command yields any output, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-16544r294496_fix)
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