REFCLOCK rises again

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Thu Mar 7 19:49:21 UTC 2019


> One problem that just occured to me is that any actual restart will have to
> be done with dropped privileges already.  The PID shouldn't change during
> restart anyway, so maybe that's taken care of already. 

Currently, one of the privs it drops is being able to change privs so there is 
no way to go back.

What would ntpd need root for?  I'm willing to assume you setup file ownership 
to allow access by ntp.  early-droproot doesn't work in a few cases.  I'd have 
to look around for the fine print.


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