sudo and timestamp

[Florian Diesch]

ubuntu at rio.vg wrote:

> I installed Ubuntu on my laptop today, and at one point the clock on it
> got severely off by about three hours into the future.  No big deal
> normally, this sort of things happens to my laptop sometimes, ntp fixes it.
>
> However, now there's a problem.  I can't run sudo.
>
> "sudo: timestamp too far in the future: Jun  2 17:22:11 2006"

Here (6.06) sudo complains about it and then ask for the password


> Does this mean that Ubuntu will prevent me from doing any configuration
> on my laptop for the next hour and a half?  

sudo -K kills the timestamp





   Florian
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