Re: clock riddle

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On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 09:47 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> If you would have a Linux system where in a default configuration
> everybody with a desktop session would be able to modify at will such
> "insignificant" system settings like values of a hardware clock and
> a system clock, not mentioning such details like global changes to
> a configured timezone, then would you think that this is:
>  - how it should be
>  - a minor boo-boo
>  - somewhat troublesome
>  - or a really serious problem of a system integrity with security
>    consequence too (messed up logs but not only)?
> 
> Now knowing that various programs will be seriously affected by
> sudden changes in clock various, and ntpd is very careful when doing
> clock adjustments, would you think that the situation described in
> the previous paragraph is something which does not happen on Fedora
> or maybe it does?

Are you reporting a bug? AFAIK changes to the system clock require the
root password, as do changes to the global timezone. Has this changed in
F11?

poc

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