Re: migration: ntpdate to rdate

Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Feb 2026 16:54:36 +0100

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Martin-Éric Racine, le jeu. 05 févr. 2026 17:21:40 +0200, a ecrit:
> +case "$METHOD" in
> +dhcp | static)
> +	rdate -n $RDATEOPTIONS $NTPSERVER
> +	;;
> +*)

I'm wondering if we shouldn't rather use a blacklist rather than a
whitelist. There are a lot of methods that make sense: bootp, tunnel,
ppp, etc.

ntpsec's script just excludes the loopback and none methods.

Samuel