Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 10:47:22 -0700 From: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Subject: Re: ntpd as ntpd user question Message-ID: <20180721174722.GA40167@www.zefox.net> In-Reply-To: <1532193285.1344.83.camel@freebsd.org> References: <5b90c49f-4616-9ef7-28a1-6445137245ef@nomadlogic.org> <1532191655.1344.80.camel@freebsd.org> <4b7acbd2-0230-345c-4370-24a72d0b492a@nomadlogic.org> <1532193285.1344.83.camel@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 11:14:45AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > > There's a "pre-world" stage of mergemaster (-Fp option I think) which > isn't needed often, but one of the times it is needed is apparently > when new user ids are added. ?(So I've been told, I've never much used > mergemaster myself). I think there are some words about it at the very > bottom of UPDATING. > FWIW, installkernel stopped with the note about needing an ntpd user/group. Never having been successful with mergemaster (couldn't make heads nor tails of the "what to do" prompts) I just ran adduser, creating a locked ntpd user and group. Nothing else special done. The machine is up to r336567 on arm64. Installkernel ran, I didn't touch anthing in /etc manually and reboot looked normal. For now it seems ignorance is bliss.... If there's something special I should do (beyond locking) to secure the ntpd account please warn me. Thanks for reading, bob prohaska
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