Some one else may have already done this - but here goes anyway. I have applied it, rebuilt chrony and installed it with a user configuration entry and verified that it starts up chrony running as that user and it is still fetching the time.
sudo adduser --no-create-home --disabled-password --disabled-login chrony # Add option: user chrony sudo vi /etc/chrony/chrony.conf sudo service chrony stop sudo service chrony start # Verified with: vagrant@debian-jessie:~$ ps -C chronyd -o pid,user,uid,gid PID USER UID GID 1375 chrony 1001 1001 I will look next at trying to add this as a default option - as suggested using user ntp - as per ntp package I guess. Let me know if there is anything else I should do? Thanks Andrew
git diff HEAD~ HEAD diff --git a/chrony-1.30/debian/control b/chrony-1.30/debian/control index c350027..81df18c 100644 --- a/chrony-1.30/debian/control +++ b/chrony-1.30/debian/control @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), texinfo, bison, libedit-dev, libnss3-dev, - libtomcrypt-dev + libtomcrypt-dev, + libcap-dev Homepage: http://chrony.tuxfamily.org Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/chrony.git Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/chrony.git
