From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 15:24: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3D3C37B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:23:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 41284 invoked by uid 100); 30 Nov 2000 23:23:57 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14886.57740.970048.654421@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:23:56 -0600 (CST) To: "Doug Young" Cc: Subject: Re: Time adjustment clamped to =1 second ??? In-Reply-To: <002d01c05b23$c14cc230$837e03cb@dougy> References: <14886.56004.471063.260025@guru.mired.org> <002d01c05b23$c14cc230$837e03cb@dougy> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Message: You should get a better mailer. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Young types: > > > Please don't do this. Just send plain text to this list; you're more > > likely to get a response that way. > ahhhh sorry, I thought it was set to plain text GUI mailers aren't good at showing you that kind of thing. > > You're almost certainly running at securelevel of 2 or more. See the > > init(8) man page for details. > > yeah thats correct .... when I dropped to securelevel 1 the problem went > away :) > I can't imagine what changing the date has to do with security though Off the top of my head, mangling log entries, defeating time-based security mechanisms, and "beating" deadlines. BTW, I just PR'ed this one for the FAQ. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message