[ntp:questions] ntpq authentication problem

Jan Ceuleers jan.ceuleers at computer.org
Sat Feb 28 08:13:03 UTC 2015


On 28/02/15 08:48, catherine.wei1989 at gmail.com wrote:
> I still have a doubt: the key file is generated on my PC (as the first ntp server) , when I copied it to the box(client), and I changed the box's ntp server to a second server "3.cn.pool.ntp.org" or some other ntp servers. The authentication still passes. Why is that?

ntpq talks directly to the ntpd process over the network. If you run
ntpq without specifying where the server is located it talks to ntpd on
localhost. Which time sources ntpd uses is immaterial.


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