Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:27:28 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: prebrov@yandex.ru Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTPD and SecureLevel Message-ID: <40D08300.20004@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <40CFFAF8.00000C.10717@colgate.yandex.ru> References: <40CFFAF8.00000C.10717@colgate.yandex.ru>
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Pavel M. Rebrov wrote: > I've installed and configured ntpd daemon and was wondering if it going to > work with SecureLevel higher than 1. SecureLevel 2 forbids changing the system > date and, therefore, ntpdate and rdate won't work. You will want to "step" the system time at boot before the securelevel is set. Afterwards, ntpd will use another mechanism to "slew" the system time (the adjtime() call) which ought to still be permitted by the securelevel. -- -Chuck
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