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Re: ntp config tech note

  • From: Charles Sprickman
  • Date: Fri May 21 00:15:07 2004

On Fri, 21 May 2004, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> RE the "ntpd as root" thing, is there a capability in some UNIXen
> which lets you fudge with the kernel time/timecounter frequency without
> being root?  I think thats all it really needs root privilege for.

Close enough?

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/02/13/chroot.html?page=1

I don't know if the other *BSDs have followed or not...

Charles

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