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> 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?

If that wrong year was in fact in the future, then you would have
had the same problem with the code as it was before, but would not
have gained any security for your trouble.

> I'm not convinced that this is a gain.  What do
> people doing Y2K tests do?

They probably don't run their machines with securelevel>0.

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