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Old 10-10-2011
Fedora- Stop users changing the time

Is there a way to stop users changing the time on their machines

we are running fedora

thanks

Adam
# 2  
Old 10-10-2011
If they log as root, no.

IF they don't know what they are doing sysadmin-wise, you can start up ntp on each user box, and have it run against a time server that the users cannot change. When the user changes time settings, ntp will slowly correct it.
# 3  
Old 10-10-2011
They log in as themsevles.
the issue is that with ntp ( which we are running) the change it too slow and is throughing things out of wack, is there a way to just lock it down
# 4  
Old 10-10-2011
What privileges do those users have, sudo access to date? To allow them to change system time.
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Old 10-10-2011
yup, but we are barginging on them not doing this, theuy would do it via the gui only
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