[OpenAFS] Re: Accuracy of timestamps in AFS files.

Jason Edgecombe jason@rampaginggeek.com
Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:28:19 -0400


Andrew Deason wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:31:39 -0400
> "Finke, Jon E" <finkej@rpi.edu> wrote:
>
>   
>> Are there other indicators (volume time stamps, etc) that would detect
>> that forgery attempt?
>>     
>
> You can get the last time anything in the volume was modified, if that
> helps:
>
> $ vos ex root.cell | grep Last
>     Last Update Wed Mar 12 17:08:23 2008
>
> Which I do not believe is forgeable from a client; at least, not easily,
> and it's certainly not common knowledge like altering timestamps with
> `touch` is.
>
>   
Are you admin? if so, all bets are off.

Jason