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AIX package management tool must be used daily to verify system software.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

<VulnDiscussion>Verification using the system package management tool can be used to determine that system software has not been tampered with. This requirement is not applicable to systems not using package management tools.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>

ID
SV-215426r991589_rule
Severity
Medium
References
Updated



Remediation - Manual Procedure

Add a job to the root crontab invoking the following system package management tool to verify the integrity of installed packages and email the result to root user.

Run the following command to add the cron job: 
# crontab -e

Within crontab command, add the following daily job to the cron table, then save the change: