Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!ziploc!eps
From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: How do I disable time and date setting from Preferences?
Summary: We set our clocks with NTP
Message-ID: <127@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 16 Nov 89 06:09:56 GMT
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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"Note that if your computer is on a network, its internal clock
might be managed by a system administrator, in which case the
Set button is dimmed."  -- p.332 in the Useless Reference Manual

This is the only documented indication I could find that it's
even possible to prevent malicious or curious users from screwing
up the date and time.  Does Preferences look for a running ntpd
and/or timed?  Can I safely strip it of its set-uid bit?  Will
this break password changing?
					-=EPS=-