> > Someone that compromised ntpd could use it to gain root? 
> And a compromised ntpd right now gives you what? The exact same thing? :-)

The idea of /dev/clock is to get rid of this kind of problem. If we are
sure that non root users cannot set the clock backward using /dev/clock,
is it okay?

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Emmanuel Dreyfus.  
manu@netbsd.org