Ensure piobe service is not in use

MediumLevel 1Automatedaix

Description

The piobe daemon is the I/O back end for the printing process, handling the job scheduling and spooling. piobe is a legacy daemon that has known vulnerabilities. This daemon should be disabled to reduce the attack surface of the system. Audit: `lsitab piobe` must return nothing (no /etc/inittab entry).

How it is checked

Audit method: Shell command

shell

command -v lsitab >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 1; out=$( { lsitab piobe ; } 2>/dev/null ); [ -z "$out" ] && echo compliant || printf '%s\n' "$out" | head -n 20

Expected output: compliant

How it is fixed

Fix method: Guidance or infrastructure patch

In /etc/inittab, remove the piobe entry: rmitab piobe

Properties

Operating systems: Any
Tags: aixservices
Reference: CIS IBM AIX 7 Benchmark v1.2.0 - 4.3.1.3 Ensure piobe service is not in use

Check this host

Run this on a machine you are allowed to audit. The scan is read-only.

shell

tmaegis scan --target aix