OpenNTPD inclusion on Fedora Core

[Thomas Zehetbauer]

On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 15:49 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
> Well, you don't need SELinux.  NTPD as shipped runs by default as user 
> 'ntp' (AFAIR), and can be chrooted as well.  OpenNTPD takes the 
> functional separation a bit further.  About the only thing a "bad 
> packet" can cause is adjusting your clock.. whether that's bad or not 
> is debatable.

ONLY if they can introduce more outlyers to your NTP server/network than
the algorithm can identify and even then they would be limited to
adjustments smaller than 1000s at a time.

Tom

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