*****SPAM***** ntpd w/ --enable-early-droproot

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sat Nov 26 21:53:05 UTC 2016


Stromeko at nexgo.de said:
> Configuring ntpd to drop root early makes it fail to open the refclock
> devices (which are owned by root).  I guess they should be readyble by group
> ntp at least on Raspbian, which starts ntpd with that group? 

Yes.

We should probably add a note to the documentation to mention that case.


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