I'm setting up ntpd on a server, so it can pull time from the
Internet, but it is failing to synchronize with other servers.
The log shows repeated:
<date/time/servername> ntpd_initres[19465]: server returns a
permission denied error
This seems to happen regardless of the source server pointed to.
After building this server a couple of weeks ago, I ran through a
security checklist from
www.cisecurity.org. I'm suspicious I've
blocked the user account ntp out from running ntpd properly. I'm
wondering if the problem might be that the daemon account that
runs ntpd (named "ntp") doesn't have permission to some file or
folder on the box?
-from /etc/passwd:
ntp:x:38:38::/etc/ntp:/sbin/nologin
Can anyone help?
Thanks, Scott
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