On Nov 4, 2008, at 3:11 AM, Glen Kent wrote:
My original question got drowned amidst all this vibrant discussions!
Do folks already use or plan to use Autokey for NTP?
In my experience most people have a hard enough time remembering to run ntp at all (and with an even remotely sane configuration - this is why a sane default using the ntp pool is helpful as a baseline). Add authentication into the mix and many operations will almost certainly just have even more mis-configuration. :-)
One of the things to lament is that it is so hard to find any reasonable examples of how to set up various configurations in a secure manner. There is voluminous documentation. Some of it is dated. Some of it is contradictory. Most of it assumes at least general familiarity with the topic. Accurate time/NTP is, on one hand, fundamentally important to a variety of needs, but on the other hand, is usually implemented just "well enough." ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.