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

Andrew Deason adeason2@uiuc.edu
Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:42:06 -0500


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.

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Andrew Deason
adeason2@uiuc.edu