The inetd time service must not be active on the system on the inetd daemon.

From AIX 6.1 SECURITY TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

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Associated with: CCI-001436

SV-38718r1_rule The inetd time service must not be active on the system on the inetd daemon.

Vulnerability discussion

The time service is an internal inetd function is used by the rdate command. This service is sometimes used to synchronize clocks at boot time. The service is outdated. Use the ntpdate command instead.

Check content

Check the /etc/inetd.conf file for TCP and UDP time service. grep time /etc/inetd.conf | grep -v daytime | grep -v \# If the time service is enabled, this is a finding.

Fix text

Edit the /etc/inetd.conf file and comment out the time service line. Restart the inetd service. # refresh -s inetd

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