OpenNTPD inclusion on Fedora Core

Pekka Savola pekkas at netcore.fi
Mon Mar 21 13:49:04 UTC 2005


On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Paul A. Houle wrote:
> 	How does SELinux apply to NTP in FC4?

Well, you don't need SELinux.  NTPD as shipped runs by default as user 
'ntp' (AFAIR), and can be chrooted as well.  OpenNTPD takes the 
functional separation a bit further.  About the only thing a "bad 
packet" can cause is adjusting your clock.. whether that's bad or not 
is debatable.

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