On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 17:00 +0000, Martin Pitt wrote: > Apart from the fact that the warning message might be a bit scary, I > don't see a problem with it. After all, it is true, and if your clock > jumps, then there's definitively a problem. > > So what exactly do you want to change here? >
Sorry for not replying earlier - a filter had misfiled your email, and I'll have to fix that. Also, I was out of town for a while. The issue was not a warning message, but rather that I could not clear the time stamp so that sudo would not allow me to preform an operation after prompting for a password. There was definitely a problem with my system - I had accidentally set the date incorrectly when I installed ubuntu, used sudo, and then reset the date when I noticed the error . I had one terminal window where sudo would work, so I used that to set a root password, which allowed me to work around the problem, but avoiding the need for a root password is the main reason for using sudo. If you get the dates really messed up (typically as the result of a user error), sudo -k should simply allow you to remove the time stamp. I think what it did was to check the timestamp first because I couldn't seem to solve the problem. -- "sudo -k" fails when timestamp is in the future https://launchpad.net/bugs/43233 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
