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[Hal Murray]

Gary said:
>> What would ntpd need root for?
> SHM(0) and SHM(1).

That would mean that you would have to restart ntpd to add SHM drivers.

Or, we could fix SHM so the client side is read-only.

The comments in ntpd.c

#ifdef ENABLE_EARLY_DROPROOT
        /* drop root privileges */
        /* This doesn't work on NetBSD or with SHM */
        if (sandbox(droproot, user, group, chrootdir, interface_interval!=0)) {
                interface_interval = 0;
                /*
                 * for now assume that the privilege to bind to privileged 
ports
                 * is associated with running with uid 0 - should be refined on
                 * ports that allow binding to NTP_PORT with uid != 0
                 */
                disable_dynamic_updates = true;
                msyslog(LOG_INFO, "INIT: running as non-root disables dynamic 
interface tracking");
        }
#endif


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