Crypto, passwords

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Fri Jan 5 17:04:38 UTC 2018


Matthew Selsky said:
> When I use ntpq from Classic, I'm never prompted for a password.  I'm not
> sure if it's reading the key from /etc/ntp.keys on my behalf or not.

Thanks.

Are you modifying things, or just looking?
For example, ntpq -p doesn't require a password.

Are you running as root?  (It shouldn't be able to read the keys file if not 
root.)


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