The timed daemon must be disabled on AIX.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-215363	AIX7-00-003057	SV-215363r958478_rule		Medium

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.

STIG	Date
IBM AIX 7.x Security Technical Implementation Guide	2024-08-16

Details

Check Text (C-16561r294540_chk)

From the command prompt, execute the following command:
# grep "^start[[:blank:]]/usr/sbin/timed" /etc/rc.tcpip

If there is any output from the command, this is a finding.

Fix Text (F-16559r294541_fix)

In "/etc/rc.tcpip", comment out the "timed" entry by running command:
# chrctcp -d timed