Bug#791572: openntpd: ntpctl fails due to insufficient ntpd.sock permissions

2018-07-24 Thread Dererk
tags -1 +confirmed +upstream thanks Hi Vincent! I'm double-checking this with upstream, since the implementation of openntpd goes far on resctricting quite a lot some security concerns on this socket file. Moreover, the code seems to have been approaching this socket as a control socket,

Bug#791572: openntpd: ntpctl fails due to insufficient ntpd.sock permissions

2015-07-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Package: openntpd Version: 1:5.7p4-1 Severity: wishlist The ntpd.sock file is created with only user and group rw permissions (for root:root), so that for the end user, ntpctl fails: $ ntpctl -s all ntpctl: connect: /var/lib/openntpd/run/ntpd.sock: Permission denied There's no good reason to