ntp config tech note
Pekka Savola
pekkas at netcore.fi
Fri May 21 12:58:05 UTC 2004
On Fri, 21 May 2004, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> RE the "ntpd as root" thing, is there a capability in some UNIXen
> which lets you fudge with the kernel time/timecounter frequency without
> being root? I think thats all it really needs root privilege for.
Yes, for example in Linux.
I've run ntpd chrooted and setuid'ed with special clock change
privileges for 3+ years now. The code has been shipping for about
three years in Red Hat Linux, for example.
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