Bug 35653 - ntp to drop root privileges
Summary: ntp to drop root privileges
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: ntp
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Harald Hoyer
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-04-11 16:31 UTC by Pekka Savola
Modified: 2007-03-27 03:43 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2001-07-19 12:41:50 UTC
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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 :-)
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