This works around the limitation of requiring root as the user. This has

been reported to the community as NTP bug 2422 "Allow ntpd to be started as

non-root if appropriate POSIX capabilities are set" which although reported

as Linux specific, is being used to track the Solaris issue as well.

This particular solution is not being passed to the community as a solution

because it is specific to Solaris and to our specific use of SMF and is not

really suitable as a general solution.

--- ntpd/ntpd.c

+++ ntpd/ntpd.c

@@ -620,12 +620,14 @@ ntpdmain(

/* MPE lacks the concept of root */

# if defined(HAVE_GETUID) && !defined(MPE)

- uid = getuid();

- if (uid && !HAVE_OPT( SAVECONFIGQUIT )) {

- msyslog_term = TRUE;

- msyslog(LOG_ERR,

- "must be run as root, not uid %ld", (long)uid);

- exit(1);

+ if (!getenv("SMF_FMRI")) {

+ uid = getuid();

+ if (uid && !HAVE_OPT( SAVECONFIGQUIT )) {

+ msyslog_term = TRUE;

+ msyslog(LOG_ERR,

+ "must be run as root, not uid %ld", (long)uid);

+ exit(1);

+ }

}

# endif