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To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>,
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Subject: Re: NTPD in upcoming release? 
In-Reply-To: Kris Kennaway's (kris@obsecurity.org) message
	dated Thu, 09 Aug 2001 20:16:36.  <20010809201636.A21157@xor.obsecurity.org> 
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There is talk about coming up with an optional interface that would let a
suitable UID mess with the clock, and this would permit ntpd to drop root
(and possibly even run without it).

It's easily weeks/months away, and will requre kernel mods.

H
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> On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 06:44:59PM -0700, Lamont Granquist wrote:
> >=20
> > Is 5.0 going to let ntpd run without root permissions?
> 
> I'm not sure how a non-privileged process would be able to adjust the
> system clock.  Perhaps you could do it with capabilities, although I
> don't know if there's one for that yet.
> 
> Kris

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