After setting up your Chrony NTP Server and Client, we are now ready to configure authentication using randomly generated symmetric keys. This is an important option beyond the allow/deny rules within your /etc/chrony.conf file to maintain the integrity of the service.
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In Part 1, we discussed setting up Chrony from a client perspective. This post will show how to configure the server side and investigate some of the options available within the /etc/chrony.conf configuration file.
Install the Chrony package
Continue reading RHEL 8 and Chrony – Part 2
The Network Time Protocol or NTP is essential for synchronizing system clocks across your environment. Having a reliable and accurate time service is not only important for many different applications but for logging and auditing as well. In RHEL 8, Chrony is used for implementing NTP. In Part 1, we will review setting this service up as a client and look at the basic functionality of the chronyc command to interact with the chrony daemon, chronyd.
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