[Freeipa-devel] NTP in FreeIPA

[Jan Cholasta]

On 30.11.2016 16:09, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> David Kupka wrote:
>> On 29/11/16 18:10, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
>>> Still, bug reports and users' complaints is the only external measure we
>>> have. There are close to nothing in complaints about NTP functionality,
>>> other than requests to support chronyd and a better discover of existing
>>> NTP setups. I don't think that requires dramatic action like removal of
>>> NTP support at all.
>>>
>>
>> As Petr already pointed out, since Fedora 16 chronyd is enabled by
>> default and ipa-client-install doesn't configure time synchronization
>> when chronyd is enabled.
>>
>> I believe that majority of users haven't used '--force-ntpd' and since
>> it still worked they haven't filed any ticket.
>>
>> IMO in this case no bug reports means no users rather than no bugs or
>> requests.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this is just my guess and AFAIK we don't have any data
>> from users showing how they use FreeIPA.
>
> For argument's sake, let's say NTP configuration in the client is
> dropped and managed by the OS or other administrators.
>
> What implication does this have for configuring NTP server on masters?
> Would that be stopped as well? What about existing installs?

I think there should be no implication, the server is a completely 
different thing.

The only thing I would maybe do is to detect if there is an existing NTP 
server configuration and if there is, do not touch it.

>
> I don't believe there is a precedence for removing a service from IPA.
>
> rob
>


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Jan Cholasta