ntpd on Red Hat

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

Another thing...do you have a ntp user and group?

Poking around at some /etc files I noticed in /etc/sysconfig/ntpd:

  # Drop root to id 'ntp:ntp' by default.  Requires kernel >= 2.2.18
  OPTIONS="-U ntp"

Redhat 7.2 is trying to prevent security problems and runs ntpd as
user:group ntp:ntp.  If you don't have and ntp user and group it will
refuse to work.  

I had forgotten that this had burned me in setting up RH 7.2. 


-kb, the Kent who likes 7.2 but who isn't happy with the 500+ MB of
update rpms.