25 May
2007
25 May
'07
6:09 p.m.
On May 25, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
It won't violently explode, but time going backwards can cause problems. For example, "make" can produce incorrect rebuilds due to improper ordering of timestamps.
Will security-sensitive apps like sshd complain and refuse access, assuming some kind of exploit is in progress?
Deliberately breaking? Maybe, but not that I know of. There are some things that won't work if the clock's just too far off - like Kerberos issues tickets valid for five minutes, so a delta between the KDC and the host of more than that will cause problems.
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