ntp.keys(5) NTP symmetric key file format

NAME

ntp.keys - NTP symmetric key file format configuration file The key is 1 to 16 printable characters terminated by an EOL, whitespace, or a # (which is the "start of comment" character).




The key is a hex-encoded ASCII string of 40 characters, which is truncated as necessary.

Note that the keys used by the ntpq(8) and ntpdc(8) programs are checked against passwords requested by the programs and entered by hand, so it is generally appropriate to specify these keys in ASCII format.

FILES

the default name of the configuration file

AUTHORS

The University of Delaware and Network Time Foundation

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1992-2016 The University of Delaware and Network Time Foundation all rights reserved. This program is released under the terms of the NTP license, <http://ntp.org/license>.

BUGS

Please send bug reports to: http://bugs.ntp.org, [email protected]

NOTES

This document was derived from FreeBSD.

This manual page was AutoGen-erated from the ntp.keys option definitions.