On 12/04/2013 10:29 AM, Bdale Garbee wrote: > At our meeting in Eben's offices in Feb, dkg came up with really cute > hack for setting the system time in an initial set-up script by > acquiring the client system's sense of time from I think an SSL session > initiation packet. I'm not aware of that ever being publicly documented > or implemented in our stack, but it seemed like a really neat "hands > off" way to handle the set-the-time-on-first-boot problem without > relying on centralized infrastructure.
We can always ask the user to set the time at first boot, right? and on that screen ask if she wants to connect to a public ntp server, highlighting that it may reveal the existence of the box to the world, or simply keep a 'vague' notion of time by itself. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
