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Howto enable NTP autokey on CentOS7 with RSA-MD5

New version of RedHat server O.S. breaks compatibility with old versions of NTP server

To make old RSA-MD5 keys generation and usage with newer versions of RedHat/CentOS openssl (1.0.1e), you have to set an environment variable:

OPENSSL_ENABLE_MD5_VERIFY=1


both when you invoke ntp-keygen and on server start (by setting it in /etc/default/ntpd)

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