[Samba] Configuring Time Synchronisation.

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2021-05-01 at 15:51 +0000, Jason Long via samba wrote:
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> On Saturday, May 1, 2021, 08:13:38 PM GMT+4:30, Rowland penny via
> samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote: 
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> On 01/05/2021 16:18, Jason Long via samba wrote:
> > Hello,
> > In 
> > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller
> > I read that "Kerberos requires synchronised time on all domain
> > members.", I never used "--enable-ntp-signd" parameter and I just
> > installed the Samba with "make && make install" commands.
> > I have below questions:
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> > 1- Is "--enable-ntp-signd" parameter enabled by default?
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> It doesn't exist, there is no such 'configure' parameter, but ntp-
> signd 
> is enabled by default.

I think the confusion here is that --enable-ntp-signd is a configure
option to NTP from ntp.org (but not ntpsec, they ripped that out
without asking what it was about) and likewise chrony.

Andrew Bartlett
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