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

Peter Eisentraut peter_e at gmx.net
Mon Nov 26 14:35:45 UTC 2007


Am Freitag, 16. November 2007 schrieb Philipp Winter:
> 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.

Do you have a way to confirm that?  The code does not agree with your 
observation.





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