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/>
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