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1.170 RHEL-09-252015

Information

RHEL 9 chronyd service must be enabled.

GROUP ID: V-257944
RULE ID: SV-257944r1038944

Inaccurate time stamps make it more difficult to correlate events and can lead to an inaccurate analysis. Determining the correct time a particular event occurred on a system is critical when conducting forensic analysis and investigating system events. Sources outside the configured acceptable allowance (drift) may be inaccurate.

Synchronizing internal information system clocks provides uniformity of time stamps for information systems with multiple system clocks and systems connected over a network.

Solution

To enable the chronyd service run the following command:

$ sudo systemctl enable --now chronyd

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/22008

Item Details

Category: AUDIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY

References: 800-53|AU-8(1), CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001891, CCI|CCI-004923, Rule-ID|SV-257944r1038944_rule, STIG-ID|RHEL-09-252015, Vuln-ID|V-257944

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: c4ec334b0a3e4ccabe8d68aa32ec5671b3fffd06c7452af449bc91a15e9c52a5