Hello,

for some (unclear) reason, ntpd reads the directory listings of
directories in $PATH (/bin/, /sbin, /usr/bin, ...).

Note that I have no idea why it does that - insights welcome ;-)
Also, ntpd seems to work without those permissions, so we might want
to change the added rule to "deny".


[ profiles-ntpd-path-dirlist.diff ]

=== modified file 'profiles/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.ntpd'
--- profiles/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.ntpd   2015-05-18 23:20:49 +0000
+++ profiles/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.ntpd   2015-08-25 12:02:18 +0000
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
   /etc/ntpd.conf.tmp r,
 
   /tmp/ntp* rwl,
+  /{usr/,usr/local/,}{s,}bin/ r,
   /usr/sbin/ntpd rmix,
   /var/lib/ntp/drift rwl,
   /var/lib/ntp/drift.TEMP rwl,



Regards,

Christian Boltz
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