Re: NTP servers

[Adam ENDRODI <borso@vekoll.saturnus.vein.hu>]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:40:14AM -0700, Adam Morley wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for a software package that provides:
> 
> - An NTP server (to serve time to NTP clients) that I can run as a non-priveleged user, chrooted.  
> 
> - An NTP client, that will keep the clock of the computer doing the NTP serving up to date.

Stock ntpd will suit your needs.  From version 4.2 it drops its
privileges early and only retains CAP_SYS_TIME to be able to
adjust the clock.  Drop me a line if you need backported packages
from testing.

bit,
adam

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