[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#451525: ntpdate: The -d flag uses the privileged sourceport 123.

[Philipp Winter]

Package: ntpdate
Version: 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-2
Severity: normal

Hi,

the manpage ntpdate(8) says in the explanation for the flag -u:
"Note that the -d option always uses unprivileged ports."

This does not seem to be correct. If the flag -d is used without
any other flags, the privileged port 123 is used.

The sentence in the manpage should be deleted.

Greetings,
Philipp

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ntpdate depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                       1:1.10-14  support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8g-1   SSL shared libraries
ii  netbase                       4.30       Basic TCP/IP networking system

ntpdate recommends no packages.

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