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Date:      Thu, 9 Aug 2001 20:16:36 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>
Cc:        "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: NTPD in upcoming release?
Message-ID:  <20010809201636.A21157@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010809184147.H14792-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org>; from lamont@scriptkiddie.org on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 06:44:59PM -0700
References:  <20010809184004.B19892@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010809184147.H14792-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org>

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On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 06:44:59PM -0700, Lamont Granquist wrote:
>=20
> Is 5.0 going to let ntpd run without root permissions?

I'm not sure how a non-privileged process would be able to adjust the
system clock.  Perhaps you could do it with capabilities, although I
don't know if there's one for that yet.

Kris

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