Bug 117496

Summary:	/etc/ntp not belonging to ntp user
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Nick (Gunnar) Bluth <bluth>
Component:	ntp	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Nick (Gunnar) Bluth 2004-03-04 17:24:33 UTC

Description of problem: 
The directory /etc/ntp does not belong to the "ntp" user account, 
which leads to errors: 
Mar  4 17:41:46 XXXXXXXX ntpd[695]: can't open /etc/ntp/drift.TEMP: 
Permission denied 
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
ntp-4.1.2-4 
 
How reproducible: 
Always. Default user in RPM is wrong. 
 
Steps to Reproduce: 
1. Install ntp 
   
Actual results: 
Error messages 
 
Expected results: 
No error messages ;-) 
 
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Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2004-03-05 10:27:34 UTC

> Default user in RPM is wrong. 

No! Your configuration file is wrong!

$ rpm -qlv ntp|fgrep drift
-rw-r--r--    1 ntp     ntp                 4 Feb 17 11:42
/var/lib/ntp/drift