Title

The time daemon must be disabled on AIX. (Cat II impact)

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 This has been superseded by NTP, which should be used if time synchronization is necessary.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

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-215373r958478_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-215373

Group Title: SRG-OS-000095-GPOS-00049

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