NTP authetication keys

[Charles Keenan]

On HPUX 11i ver 1 we are running NTPv3 and we don't get the ntp-keygen command to create authentication keys. Is there an easy way to create /etc/ntp.keys and in the correct format???

[Steven E. Protter]

I personally didn't even know what NTP v3 was.

But the itrc search engine does.

If you find a solution in this doc or otherwise, post it back to this thread please.

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/B2355-90685_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/00/00/64-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90685/00/00/64-toc.html&searchterms=NTPv3&queryid=20030828-050527

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[Charles Keenan]

Steven,

I read that manual page but didn't believe a word of it ... to my cost ... Thanks for getting my head straight ... I've been up to my ears in NTPv4 which uses PKI so I was scratching my head for an easy way to generate public/private keys(I even started looking at newkey(1) but that's a NIS/NIS+ command ... yuch!!!)

Thanks again !!!

Charles K

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Charles,

Like Steven I'v never heard of it, came across this doc.

http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/search.do?category=c0&mode=text&searchString=%22%2Fetc%2Fntp.keys%22&searchCrit=allwords&docType=Security&docType=Patch&docType=EngineerNotes&docType=BugReports&docType=Hardware&docType=ReferenceMaterials&docType=ThirdParty

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan