Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 12:21:22 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: 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: <370C20B2.BD062E4F@newsguy.com> References: <199904071636.JAA15238@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990408100716.I2142@lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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? How about not using securelevel>1 when doing such tests? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "nothing better than the ability to perform cunning linguistics" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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