Hello. I have several suggestions:
1) make an optional requires of server/client packages to ntpd, because last could conflict with another NTP server/client (based to platform); 2) make an abstract NTP module to easy change basic operations (like read/write configuration, time sync); 3) based on above each Linux distribution team can contribute easily (e.g. from ALTLinux - openntpd ;-) ); 4) Of course manual steps(not by installers) are error prone(misconfiguration, wrong configuration, etc.). But IPA controls NTP configuration upon installation only (not at runtime or start time) as far as i know. May be add time syncing check? Thank you. 29.01.2018 17:57, Tibor Dudlák via FreeIPA-devel пишет: > > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 3:09 PM, Simo Sorce <sso...@redhat.com > <mailto:sso...@redhat.com>> wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-01-29 at 14:54 +0100, Tibor Dudlák wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > So given the above we initially decided to make IPA > servers also ntp > > > > > servers and configure client to use IPA server as time > sources. > > > > Not configuring NTP service but still requiting it might be way > to give > > freedom of choice to IPA administrator to set one they prefer before > > installing IPA. :) > > I think this is the worst of the possible outcomes, as now you need to > add one more manual step to the configuration of the system. > The point of ipa-server-install is to simplify installation and > configure everything that is *required* except the Operating System. > Requiring something and not installing it would be a net regression. > > [...] > > > So should we only replace ntpd with chronyd and have option to not > > configure NTP service (chronyd) as it is now if administrator > wants to use > > other than chronyd? > > This is certainly an option, but we would then require to have > code for > both ntpd and chronyd upstream, because some older distros use NTP. > Not that this is too difficult, we already have the platform > absraction, so it is a simply a matter of adding chronyd w/o removing > ntpd. > > HTH, > Simo. > > > Thanks for input Simo. > > -- > Tibor Dudlák > Identity management - freeIPA > Brno, TPB-C, 2C407 > Red Hat > > > _______________________________________________ > FreeIPA-devel mailing list -- freeipa-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > To unsubscribe send an email to freeipa-devel-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org
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