From owner-cvs-all Wed Apr 7 17:39:25 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA90158E9; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:39:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA16974; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:07:18 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA19682; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:07:17 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990408100716.I2142@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:07:16 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Nick Sayer , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_time.c References: <199904071636.JAA15238@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199904071636.JAA15238@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Nick Sayer on Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 09:36:57AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message