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From: atoth@××××××××××.hu
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] How to set up for chrony?
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:57:04
Message-Id: 33541.138.26.45.66.1199127289.squirrel@atoth.sote.hu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] How to set up for chrony? by Peter Humphrey
1 Brant Williams asked for the Grsecurity _RBAC_ denial messages.
2
3 Do you have Grsecurity RBAC enabled? Hardened Gentoo has several flavors:
4 you can use either SELinux, RSBAC or Grsecurity (or Apparmor) for access
5 control purposes.
6
7 What access control mechanism do you use? Do you use Grsecurity?
8 If you do: you should have some denial error messages in your system log.
9 One exception for this if you use "h" option in your policy to suppress
10 denial messages. You should remove it from the responsible location.
11 Have you (ever) fine tuned your Grsec policy? If not: please see Grsec
12 documentation and search for learning mode.
13
14 If you have your grsec denials: you should incorporate the necessary
15 rights in your policy for chronyd.
16
17 Regards,
18 Dw.
19 --
20 dr Tóth Attila, Radiológus Szakorvos jelölt, 06-20-825-8057, 06-30-5962-962
21 Attila Toth MD, Radiologist in Training, +36-20-825-8057, +36-30-5962-962
22
23 On Hét, December 31, 2007 18:44, Peter Humphrey wrote:
24 > On Monday 31 December 2007 16:39:30 brant williams wrote:
25 >
26 >> Can you paste the error you're referring to?
27 >
28 > Here goes (sorry if line wrapping spoils it), with my four comments:
29 >
30 > Dec 31 17:32:55 gate chronyd[23772]: chronyd exiting on signal # I'd
31 > restarted it; no mention of file operations, note
32 > Dec 31 17:32:55 gate chronyd[23855]: chronyd version 1.21 starting
33 > Dec 31 17:32:55 gate chronyd[23855]: Could not open RTC file
34 > /etc/chrony/chrony.rtc for reading # because it wasn't there
35 > Dec 31 17:32:56 gate grsec: From 192.168.129.25: time set by
36 > /usr/sbin/chronyd[chronyd:23855] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0, parent
37 > /usr/sbin/chronyd[chronyd:23854] uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0 # I was ssh'd
38 > in from that IP address (this box is headless)
39 > Dec 31 17:32:56 gate chronyd[23855]: Initial txc.tick=10000 txc.freq=0
40 > (0.00000000) txc.offset=0 => hz=100 shift_hz=7
41 > Dec 31 17:32:56 gate chronyd[23855]: set_config_hz=0 hz=100 shift_hz=7
42 > basic_freq_scale=1.28000000 nominal_tick=10000 slew_delta_tick=833
43 > max_tick_bias=1000
44 > Dec 31 17:32:56 gate chronyd[23855]: Linux kernel major=2 minor=6 patch=23
45 > Dec 31 17:32:56 gate chronyd[23855]: calculated_freq_scale=0.99902439
46 > freq_scale=0.99902439
47 > Dec 31 17:33:03 gate chronyd[23855]: No valid file coefficients, cannot
48 > trim system time # I don't understand what that means
49 >
50 > So it looks as though chrony can set the system clock, but not write
51 > /etc/chrony/chrony.rtc - but it has written /etc/chrony/chrony.drift!
52 >
53 > $ ls -ld /etc/chrony
54 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-12-31 17:38 /etc/chrony
55 > $ ls -l /etc/chrony
56 > total 24
57 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12395 2007-12-31 17:29 chrony.conf
58 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42 2007-12-31 17:39 chrony.drift
59 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1172 2007-12-31 17:31 chrony.keys
60 >
61 > I tried touching /etc/chrony/chrony.conf, but it remained empty.
62 >
63 > $ uname -a
64 > Linux gate 2.6.23-hardened-r4-gr #4 Sun Dec 30 16:58:09 GMT 2007 i686
65 > Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
66 >
67 > I'm beginning to wonder whether chrony is capable of running on this box.
68 >
69 > --
70 > Rgds
71 > Peter
72 > --
73 > gentoo-hardened@g.o mailing list
74 >
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