From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sat Jul 21 17:47:14 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8AC310519E6 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2018 17:47:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@www.zefox.net) Received: from www.zefox.net (www.zefox.net [50.1.20.27]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "www.zefox.org", Issuer "www.zefox.org" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3FB5D719CA; Sat, 21 Jul 2018 17:47:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@www.zefox.net) Received: from www.zefox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.zefox.net (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id w6LHlNiL040228 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 21 Jul 2018 10:47:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsd@www.zefox.net) Received: (from fbsd@localhost) by www.zefox.net (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id w6LHlMVo040227; Sat, 21 Jul 2018 10:47:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsd) Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 10:47:22 -0700 From: bob prohaska To: Ian Lepore Cc: Pete Wright , FreeBSD Current , bob prohaska Subject: Re: ntpd as ntpd user question Message-ID: <20180721174722.GA40167@www.zefox.net> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1532193285.1344.83.camel@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 17:47:15 -0000 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