[ntp:questions] ntpdate

tglassey tglassey at glassey.com
Mon Jun 15 21:54:22 UTC 2009


Danny Mayer wrote:
> Scott Haneda wrote:
>   
>> On Jun 15, 2009, at 8:59 AM, Todd Glassey CISM CIFI wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>> You should be running ntpd as a daemon. That will keep the clock in
>>>> synch and you never have to touch it.
>>>>         
>>> Which creates an audit issue and security profile which always needs
>>> to be watched. NTPD is not the answer for everyone Danny.
>>>       
>> Can you elaborate on this?  I see that ntpdate and ntpd can both be made
>> to do the same thing in my case, which is a non daemonized single
>> instance setting of time.
>>
>> If I do not plan on making a daemon, and just running it once a hour on
>> schedule, as well as in a reboot of the machine after the interfaces are
>> up, what would my concerns be?
>>
>> If I do decide to run ntpd as a daemon, what audit/secuirty issues
>> should I be looking into?
>>
>> Thank you Todd.
>>     
>
> He's just blowing fud.
>
> Danny
>   
No Danny I was speaking from an audit perspective. No FUD here - just 
reality.

Todd
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