Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 21:35:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: nsayer@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_time.c Message-ID: <199904080435.VAA40813@medusa.kfu.com> In-Reply-To: <19990408100716.I2142@lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Apr 8, 1999 10: 7:16 am"
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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. -- echo afnlre@dhnpx.xsh.pbz |\ : Ahhh, spring, when a young man's tr 'a-z' 'n-za-m' : fancy turns to....taxes. or remove nospam in From: line : http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ : -- The Usenet Oracle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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