Re: [chrony-users] Chrony as non-root user (again)

[Denny Page <dennypage@xxxxxx>]

This does not sound like a good idea. Not only with this confuse and annoy the end user admins, but it is also annoy the downstream maintainers. Upstream distributions that do things like this become quickly unpopular downstream.

On Sep 14, 2020, at 16:59, Kevin <kevincox@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As for breaking features I don't think this will be a major concern as the failure will be obvious. As I understand it after reading the config chrony opens all of the files it needs (before dropping privledges) so it would be easy to produce an obvious error "Can not access $thing, your admin or package maintainer has made a mistake, do not report this issue to chrony developers."