ntpd as ntpd user question
Ian Lepore
ian at freebsd.org
Sun Jul 22 16:34:23 UTC 2018
On Sat, 2018-07-21 at 15:09 -0700, bob prohaska wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 12:14:10PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> >
> >
> > I can't see any way that installkernel would lead to the complaint
> > about the ntpd user not existing; that check is tied to the
> > installworld target.
> >
> My mistake. I was sleepy and in a hurry. The error message was in
> installworld
> and my attempt to adduser ntpd concluded with an error:
> Locked : yes
> OK? (yes/no): yes
> pw: Bad id 'ntpd': invalid
> adduser: ERROR: There was an error adding user (ntpd).
> On reboot the old ntpd set the clock and I thought all was well.
>
> The failure is a little surprising, is ntpd a reserved name?
>
> The machine is re-running buildworld/installworld from a clean start,
> so presumably it'll halt over the same error again. When that
> happens,
> what's the simplest way to recover? Mergemaster is a big hammer,
> something
> less comprehensive might suffice, even manual editing of files.
>
> There's minimal customization on the machine, basically /etc/fstab,
> /etc/rc.conf and /etc/passwd. Nothing else of real value, so if I
> kill
> it in the attempt it won't be a disaster.
>
>
> Thanks for waking me to my blunder...
>
> bob prohaska
>
The important changes that mergemaster would handle are:
- add ntpd user, id 123
- add ntpd group, id 123
- set ntpd_flags="" in /etc/defaults/rc.conf
- install the new /etc/rc.d/ntpd
You can add the user by doing vipw and pasting the ntpd line from
/usr/src/etc/master.passwd, IMO easier than doing adduser and answering
all the questions.
-- Ian
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