[ntp:questions] ntpq authentication problem

catherine.wei1989 at gmail.com catherine.wei1989 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 27 11:19:19 UTC 2015


On Friday, February 27, 2015 at 5:54:41 PM UTC+8, catherin... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, February 27, 2015 at 4:45:03 PM UTC+8, Martin Burnicki wrote:
> > catherine.wei1989 at gmail.com wrote:
> > > I've upgrading the ntp from 4.6.1 to 4.8.1, and need to change some commands which depend on ntpdc to ntpq since ntpdc has been depreciated in 4.8.1 version. And I met a problem.
> > >
> > > When I first set the keyid to 0, it said "Invalid key identifier", so I set it to 1, but it requires a MD5 Password. I don't quite understand how to get the keyid and password.
> > >
> > > Can you give me some advice? Appreciate your help very much.
> > >
> > >
> > > ~ # ntpq
> > > ntpq> :config addserver 192.168.1.101 minpoll 3 maxpoll 4 burst
> > > Keyid: 0
> > > Invalid key identifier
> > > ntpq> :config addserver 192.168.1.101 minpoll 3 maxpoll 4 burst
> > > Keyid: 1
> > > MD5 Password:
> > > ***Server disallowed request (authentication?)
> > > ntpq>
> > >
> > 
> > Please see my reply to your other posting. Why do you post basically the 
> > same question three times?
> > 
> > Martin
> > -- 
> > Martin Burnicki
> > 
> > Meinberg Funkuhren
> > Bad Pyrmont
> > Germany
> 
> Hi,appreciate for your kind response. I've generate a file 
>  1 MD5 P[G\;5Ob@[\[Ni4PJx3&  # MD5 key
>  2 MD5 z}6`X[cpV%UDktmbghiA  # MD5 key
>  3 MD5 %(4%pM<~(8p[cn,,S/0N  # MD5 key
>  4 MD5 TT_QA;=x*G$4p1-d"1;C  # MD5 key
>  5 MD5 ml~KoJ*<`vM&7fxTeR.@  # MD5 key
>  6 MD5 +wc93d8[~tBRyzd<GL{L  # MD5 key
>  7 MD5 _WMzU`YQpwN&?5TYJ^5i  # MD5 key
>  8 MD5 ~1zzyA.9-fM[|>Zv|mpv  # MD5 key
>  9 MD5 ?N4f+')!S9 at 7.V*G3,xI  # MD5 key
> 10 MD5 <>u;LcQ*cJ8{%yKo`z1?  # MD5 key
> 11 SHA1 591701ab51fd2936651ce6920ffecc3ea5b99dea  # SHA1 key
> 12 SHA1 6fe71721baef0e91c41e23984cf9f663f18ba112  # SHA1 key
> 13 SHA1 bb96c2b73f01659194a94cadc496cedfa12f3832  # SHA1 key
> 14 SHA1 51f5237ef46c99492070deb5a762d7f434794b58  # SHA1 key
> 15 SHA1 21c578d9e5d56a8bdc0560443f96f1047c93a276  # SHA1 key
> 16 SHA1 5c3927c1e05559f5695a353636d4c3ddff6e7e11  # SHA1 key
> 17 SHA1 14321c68317d531e004497bd9b6b0d475630a291  # SHA1 key
> 18 SHA1 89ac3debc33937ba25638ef0fc035d830fea6fe5  # SHA1 key
> 19 SHA1 9f47dda7ae80426c6aa8acac22dc9afef4b900fb  # SHA1 key
> 20 SHA1 80515077771a9e6d5bb70d6985b236008d962f34  # SHA1 key
> 
>  I've renamed it to npt.keys, put it /etc/ntp.keys. My /etc/ntp.conf file is like this:
> 
> driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
> keys /etc/ntp.keys
> trustedkey 1 5
> controlkey 5
> restrict default ignore
> restrict 127.0.0.1
> broadcastdelay 0.008
> #6000000000s because we start at 1970
> tinker panic 6000000000
> restrict 3.cn.pool.ntp.org nomodify notrap
> server 3.cn.pool.ntp.org minpoll 3 maxpoll 4
> 
> However, when I run ntpq :
> ~ # ntpq 
> ntpq> :config addserver 192.168.1.101 minpoll 3 maxpoll 4 burst 
> Keyid: 5 
> MD5 Password:(password corresponding to keyid 5 in /etc/ntp.keys) 
> ***Server disallowed request (authentication?) 
> 
> I don't know why this happens? Do I need some other configurations? Thank you so much. By the way, how can I define the controlkey for ntpq. In my case, I just define the controlkey to 5 randomly, is there any rule?



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