Please build ntpd with --enable-ntp-signd
by mfoley from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6JHZT)
This post is not so much an issue as a suggestion to the Slackware distribution maintainers. In future slackpkg updates, could you please build ntpd with the --enable-ntp-signd option?
Without this option the Linux host cannot act as a ntp time server to Windows computers. And, since Windows computers are an inevitability in any LAN nowadays, --enable-ntp-signd should be a default option. It certainly won't hurt anything to have that enabled even if the end user has no need to time-sync with Windows computers.
I just spent a couple of weeks getting this sorted out. I knew about this and thought I had built my ntpd from source with that option, but apparently I didn't do something right in the build process.
Likewise, I would suggest the SlackBuilds maintainer of chrony do the same.
Thanks
Without this option the Linux host cannot act as a ntp time server to Windows computers. And, since Windows computers are an inevitability in any LAN nowadays, --enable-ntp-signd should be a default option. It certainly won't hurt anything to have that enabled even if the end user has no need to time-sync with Windows computers.
I just spent a couple of weeks getting this sorted out. I knew about this and thought I had built my ntpd from source with that option, but apparently I didn't do something right in the build process.
Likewise, I would suggest the SlackBuilds maintainer of chrony do the same.
Thanks