Bug 51433

Summary:	permissions mismatch between ntpd and /var/lib/misc
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Matthew Marlowe (RETIRED) <mattm>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	SpanKY <vapier>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Matthew Marlowe (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-05-18 16:58:11 UTC

ntp is currently configured to run by default as user ntp, group ntp.
However, the management application, ntpdc, requires write permission to /var/lib/misc by default and baselayout currently has 755 and owned by root.

This bug has existed for several months and has required fixing on every server deployed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.setup new server
2.emerge, configure, and run ntpd
3.run ntpdc
4.Type peers
5. notice that syslog reports "18 May 16:05:24 ntpd[2023]: can't open /var/lib/misc/ntp.drift.TEMP: Permission denied"
6. chmod 777 /var/lib/misc, restart ntp
7. run ntpdc again, get correct results

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-05-23 12:35:23 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48822 ***