mediumservicesverified ✓rollback-safe
Ensure chrony is installed
chrony-installed · UBUNTU ≥ 22, RHEL ≥ 8 · 2 impls
Description
Chrony is a versatile NTP implementation that provides accurate time synchronization. Accurate system time is critical for security logging, authentication, and forensic analysis.
Rationale
Time synchronization is essential for correlating events across systems, validating Kerberos tickets, and ensuring accurate timestamps in audit logs. Chrony is the recommended time synchronization daemon for RHEL.
Check → Remediate
Checkpackage_state
- name:
- chrony
- state:
- present
Remediatepackage_present
- name:
- chrony
Framework references
CIS
rhel9 2.3.1rhel8 2.3.1rhel10 2.3.1
STIG
V-280958 / RHEL-10-200540V-257943 / RHEL-09-252010V-270664 / UBTU-24-100700V-260479 / UBTU-22-215015
NIST 800-53
AU-8
Live verification
rhel10:checkrhel8:checkrhel9:checkubuntu22:checkubuntu24:checkubuntu26:check
#service#time#ntp#chrony