Quoting Christoph Mitasch (cmita...@thomas-krenn.com):
> Hello,
> 
> we recently discovered that a container was able to modify the hardware clock 
> of a server.
> 
> When checking the lxc configuration I found out that rwm access to /dev/rtc 
> was granted.
> 
> Unfortunately most lxc templates allow write access per default.
> http://lxc.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lxc/lxc;a=tree;f=templates
> 
> This was already discussed a few years ago:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00718.html
> 
> I would recommend to modify access to /dev/rtc in the templates.
> Or are there any caveats to do so?

Thanks for the reminder.

I can't think of any.

If noone else speaks up by tomorrow, I'll update the templates to
make it 'rm'.

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