linux-nisplus digest, Vol 1 #92 - 1 msg

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Thu, Apr 18, Carroll, Jim wrote:

> I saw it on http://www.linux-nis.org/ as well as http://www.linux.org/docs/
> .
> 
> Jim
> 
> > Jim,
> >     We don't have the time service enabled and it works 
> > great. I haven't seen
> > where it says you need the time service enabled? We are using 
> > strictly ntp
> > with no issues at all.

If you are using strictly ntp, you don't need the time service. 
Since the secureRPC key is only a very short time guilty, the time
service is used to look, how far away the clock on the server is.

  Thorsten

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