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 -- 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
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