sudo and timestamp

alex-weej ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Sat Jul 1 10:58:35 UTC 2006


Neither -k nor -K works for me. Same output.



Windows hoses my hardware clock to local time every time I boot it!



Florian Diesch Wrote: 
> ubuntu (AT) rio (DOT) 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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