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. -- Scott Lamb <http://www.slamb.org/>