Ensure qdaemon service is not in use

MediumLevel 1Automatedaix

Description

This is the printing scheduling daemon that manages the submission of print jobs to piobe. qdaemon is a legacy daemon that has known vulnerabilities. This daemon should be disabled to reduce the attack surface of the system. Audit: `lsitab qdaemon` 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=$( { lsitab qdaemon ; } 2>/dev/null ); [ -z "$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 qdaemon entry: rmitab qdaemon

Properties

Operating systems: Any
Tags: aixservices
Reference: CIS IBM AIX 7 Benchmark v1.2.0 - 4.3.1.4 Ensure qdaemon 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