Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 23:21:00 -0400 From: Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>, "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com Subject: Re: NTPD in upcoming release? Message-ID: <16011.997413660@brown.pfcs.com> 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 -- > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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