The timed daemon must be disabled on AIX.
An XCCDF Rule
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.
- ID
- SV-215363r958478_rule
- Version
- AIX7-00-003057
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
In "/etc/rc.tcpip", comment out the "timed" entry by running command:
# chrctcp -d timed