OpenNTPD inclusion on Fedora Core

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 21 Mar 2005, at 14:49, Pekka Savola wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Paul A. Houle wrote:
>> 	How does SELinux apply to NTP in FC4?
>
> 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.

I would say maliciously adjusting the clock is very bad, from a 
security perspective ;-)