NTP Drift Causing Auth Failures

Fix clock skew that causes LDAP authentication to fail intermittently.

A advanced Linux challenge worth 20 points. Solve it hands-on in a real Linux environment in your browser - no local setup, no fake shells.

The Challenge

LDAP auth fails with "clock skew too great". chronyc says it is synced but the RTC hardware clock is drifting.

Your tasks:

• Check sync status: timedatectl status
• Check chrony tracking: chronyc tracking 2>/dev/null || cat /var/log/chrony_status.log
• Add rtcsync directive to /etc/chrony.conf (keeps RTC in sync automatically)
• Restart chrony: systemctl restart chrony 2>/dev/null || true
• Write the chrony tracking output + confirmation of rtcsync directive to /tmp/ntp_fix.txt
• Run check to validate