sudo and timestamp

[Vram]

On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 15:44 -0400, 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"
> 
> Does this mean that Ubuntu will prevent me from doing any configuration
> on my laptop for the next hour and a half?  (And, is it just me, or is
> this a supremely bad design decision?)
> 
> I'd move back to the, imho, more sane su system, but I can't do that,
> either, since I'd need sudo to set the root password...
> 
> 

Can you boot and use the live disk to recover?

Boot to CD..Then mount the hard-drive?

Vram