[sudo-users] Frequently getting timestamp errors

[Aaron Spangler]

I suspect there are some whacked dates in /var/run/sudo/

 -Aaron


On 8/26/05, Alex Charrett <sudo at transposed.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm having an issue where quite often (but not all the time) when I invoke
> sudo it warns on "timestamp too far in the future".
> 
> $ sudo emerge --search sudo
> sudo: timestamp too far in the future: Jul 25 06:53:28 2029
> 
> Followed up by an email:
> -----
> Subject: *** SECURITY information for server ***
> 
> server : Aug 26 14:15:17 : user : timestamp too far in the future: Jul 25
> 06:53:28 2029 ; TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/user ; USER=root ;
> COMMAND=/usr/bin/emerge --search sudo
> -----
> 
> I've had a pretty thorough google on the subject and spoken to various
> collegues, but no-one can work out why it's doing this.  I've even
> resorted to running a find / -exec stat {} \; and there are no files on my
> system with the date it's complaining about.   My machine runs ntp so I'm
> confused as to how this could have happened.
> 
> Below are various versions and permissions that should be helpful:
> 
> $ sudo -V
> Sudo version 1.6.8p9
> 
> -r--r-----  1 root root 1671 Jul 31 11:56 /etc/sudoers
> drwx------  3 root root 4096 Aug 26 14:15 /var/run/sudo/
> drwx------  2 root root 4096 Aug 26 14:20 /var/run/sudo/user
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux server 2.4.29-sparc #4 Mon Apr 18 21:05:44 BST 2005 sparc64 sun4u TI
> UltraSparc IIe (Hummingbird) GNU/Linux
> 
> $ cat /etc/gentoo-release
> Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
> 
> Has anyone got any idea what could be causing this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex.
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