ntpd as ntpd user question

[bob prohaska]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 11:14:45AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> 
> There's a "pre-world" stage of mergemaster (-Fp option I think) which
> isn't needed often, but one of the times it is needed is apparently
> when new user ids are added. ?(So I've been told, I've never much used
> mergemaster myself). I think there are some words about it at the very
> bottom of UPDATING.
> 

FWIW, installkernel stopped with the note about needing an ntpd user/group.
Never having been successful with mergemaster (couldn't make heads nor tails
of the "what to do" prompts) I just ran adduser, creating a locked ntpd user
and group. Nothing else special done. The machine is up to r336567 on arm64.

Installkernel ran, I didn't touch anthing in /etc manually and reboot looked normal.
For now it seems ignorance is bliss....

If there's something special I should do (beyond locking) to secure the ntpd 
account please warn me.

Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska