Title

The AIX qdaemon must be disabled if local or remote printing is not required. (Cat II impact)

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

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-215348r958478_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-215348

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

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