using chroot option for ntpd
Martin Pitt
martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Fri Jul 22 03:17:04 CDT 2005
Hi!
stan [2005-07-22 8:32 +0100]:
> ntpd has a -i option to chroot itself, which the ntp-simple package
> isn't using. Is it worthwhile using it given that it does switch to a
> non root/restricted user?
With the current default Linux kernel, chroots do nothing to improve
security. ntpd runs as normal user, so it already has only minimal
privileges, and can't do anything serious on the hard disk anyway. So
what would be the benefit of chrooting it?
Martin
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