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Date:      Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:07:16 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Nick Sayer <nsayer@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_time.c
Message-ID:  <19990408100716.I2142@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199904071636.JAA15238@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Nick Sayer on Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 09:36:57AM -0700
References:  <199904071636.JAA15238@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Wednesday,  7 April 1999 at  9:36:57 -0700, Nick Sayer wrote:
> nsayer      1999/04/07 09:36:57 PDT
>
>   Modified files:
>     sys/kern             kern_time.c
>   Log:
>   If securelevel>1, allow the clock to be adjusted negatively only up to
>   1 second prior to the highest the clock has run so far. This allows
>   time adjusters like xntpd to do their work, but the worst a miscreant
>   can do is "freeze" the clock, not go back in time.

Does this mean that if somebody accidentally sets the time to the
wrong year, the only thing he can do to fix it is to reboot in
single-user mode?  I'm not convinced that this is a gain.  What do
people doing Y2K tests do?

Greg
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