xntpd startup...Is it safe?


 
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Old 12-21-2005
xntpd startup...Is it safe?

Hi,
Have never run xntpd before. I have my ntp.conf file configured with server, trace file and drift file. I commented out the "broadcastclient" entry since I only want to get the time from a single source. Port 123 is in the /etc/services file for tcp and udp. Port 123 has been enabled in the ISA firewall so it can get to the outside time server.

Can I cause any damage bringing this up during the middle of the day when there are many users on the system if it doesn't run correctly?

After my research, I am assuming that I run "startsrc -s xntpd" to start and then run "stopsrc -s xntpd" to stop the daemon if there is a problem.

If all runs well, then I uncomment the xntpd startup in /etc/rc.tcpip to run the daemon upon system boot. Correct?

Thanks in advance for any input or advice anyone can give me.

Last edited by DenD; 12-21-2005 at 05:56 PM.. Reason: typo
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ntp.keys(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual						       ntp.keys(4)

NAME
ntp.keys - Network Time Protocol (NTP) authentication key file DESCRIPTION
The NTP standard specifies an extension to allow verification of the authenticity of received NTP packets and to provide an indication of authenticity in outgoing packets. This is implemented in xntpd using the MD5 algorithm to compute the message-digest. The specification allows any one of possibly 4 billion keys, numbered with 32-bit key identifiers, to be used to authenticate an association. The servers involved in an association must agree on the key and key identifier used to authenticate their data, though they must each learn the key and key identifier independently. In MD5, the keys are 64 bits (8 bytes). The xntpd daemon reads its keys from a file specified using the -k command line option, or the keys statement in the configuration file. While key number 0 is fixed by the NTP standard (as 56 zero bits) and may not be changed, one or more of the keys numbered 1 through 15 may be arbitrarily set in the keys file. One of the keys may be chosen, by way of the configuration file requestkey statement, to authenticate run time configuration requests made using the xntpdc(8) program. The latter program obtains the key from the terminal as a password, so it is generally appropriate to specify the key chosen to be used for this purpose in ASCII format. The NTP key file uses the same comment conventions as the configuration file. Key entries use a fixed format of the form: keyno type key In this format: Is a positive integer. Is a single character that defines the format the key is given in. This is always M, representing Message Digest (MD5) on Tru64 UNIX systems. Is the key itself. The MD5 algorithm key is a 1-to-8 character ASCII string. Because of the simple tokenizing routine, you cannot use the following characters in an ASCII key: " " (space), "#" (number sign), "", "0, and " ". Note that both the keys and the authentication scheme (MD5) must be identical between a set of peers sharing the same key number. EXAMPLES
The following sample key file shows two defined NTP keys: 2 M RIrop8KPPvQvYotM # MD5 key as a random ASCII string 14 M sundial # MD5 key as an ASCII string FILES
Conventional name of the key file RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: ntpdate(8), ntpq(8), xntpd(8), xntpdc(8) Files: ntp.conf(4) Network Administration delim off ntp.keys(4)