Bug 35653

Summary:	ntp to drop root privileges
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Pekka Savola <pekkas>
Component:	ntp	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	7.1	CC:	gustav, jarno.huuskonen
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2001-07-19 12:41:50 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Pekka Savola 2001-04-11 16:31:45 UTC

There has been a patch by Chris Wing (enhanced by Jarno Huuskonen and a
tiny
bit by myself) to drop root privileges.  This can be done because kernel
capabilities allow you to keep the rights to change the clock.

.src.rpm against the latest is available at
http://www.netcore.fi/pekkas/linux/.

This requires kernel >=2.2.18 and libcap package (available at the same
location).

Comment 1 Pekka Savola 2001-07-19 12:41:45 UTC

This would be very nice to have in the next release.  I've been running this
quite stably
on dozens and dozens of servers for many months now :-)