Time and synchronization — chrony, ntpd and timedatectl

35 min Rocky Linux 9 Versions 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Objective

Have servers that are all at the same time, and at the right time. Without this, incident logs no longer match up, receipts are wrongly dated, certificates appear expired and Kerberos authentication rejects logins.

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