Details

This is the printing scheduling daemon that manages the submission of print jobs to piobe.

If there is not a requirement to support local or remote printing, remove the qdaemon entry from/etc/inittab.

Solution

In /etc/inittab, remove the qdaemon entry-

rmitab qdaemon

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

• https://workbench.cisecurity.org/files/528

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Unix.

References

• 800-53|CM-7b.
• CSCv6|9.1

Source

• Tenable.com/audits