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From: rogerj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Can I stop everyone from resetting the system clock?
Message-ID: <9832@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 90 23:27:14 GMT
References: <2170@milton.acs.washington.edu> <1990Mar2.023809.25321@csusac.csus.edu>
Reply-To: rogerj@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda)
Followup-To: FQOJ@CORNELLA.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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In article <1990Mar2.023809.25321@csusac.csus.edu> hoodr@syscube.UUCP (Robert Hood) writes:
>In article <2170@milton.acs.washington.edu> pentch@milton.acs.washington.edu (Dean Pentcheff) writes:
>>On the Next that I adminstrate, we've just discovered that any user
>>(via Preferences) can reset the system clock to any arbitrary value.
>>This is unacceptable.
>>
>>How can I disable users' ability to do this?
>>
>Yes...I just did that earlier this week!
>
>1)  Use fsectbyname (from most NeXT archives) to remove the time panel
>	from prefences:
 
Yes, you could do that but there's a MUCH easier way:
 
su to root
chmod ug-s Preferences
exit
 
Changing passwd still works because NetInfo takes care of this, only the
call to `date` is disabled and that's what we're after, isn't it?
 
--Roger Jagoda
--CORNELL University
--FQOJ@CORNELLA.CIT.CORNELL.EDU