From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jan 15 20:54:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF9CC37B402 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 20:54:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.128.158.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.128.158] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Qi5C-0004tH-00; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 20:53:55 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0G4rPT33431; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 20:53:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 20:53:21 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Devon@jovi.net Cc: FreeBSD@jovi.net, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/33904: secure mode bug Message-ID: <20020115205321.D31328@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <200201142344.g0ENimK91227@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020115011230.D28767@blossom.cjclark.org> <200201151526.g0FFQFX02180@grant.org> <20020115133339.A31328@blossom.cjclark.org> <200201152202.g0FM2lE05944@grant.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200201152202.g0FM2lE05944@grant.org>; from Devon@jovi.net on Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 05:02:47PM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 05:02:47PM -0500, Devon@jovi.net wrote: > (failure to set the time is not usually expected) > > Programs seem to handle it ok when user is not root. If the program checks if it is running under the superuser uid on its own, it might not have exceptions to deal with these types of problems. It's also fun to have programs tell you you need to be root to do something when you are root. -- "It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious." Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message