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Re: running ntpdate as user



Lance Hoffmeyer <lance@augustmail.com> [2002-09-18 08:39:56 -0500]:
> Anyone know what I need to change in 
> order to run ntpdate as a user without 
> using su sudo ...?

Without looking I assume that changing the time is a root privilege
operation.  Otherwise anyone could change the time and play games with
the system.  Therefore what you would have to change to allow non-root
to do this would be the code in the kernel which makes that a
privilege operation.

Bob

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