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hukl on March 1, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Run sudo -k, set your clock to 01.01.1970, run sud...

It works if you set your time through system preferences in OSX, Gnome and KDE on some distros. Changing it on those desktop guis does not require admin password. Also see:

http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/alerts/epoch_ticket.html

hukl on March 1, 2013 [–]

Also be sure to set the date including timezone offset.

On OSX run sudo -k, open date and time prefs. Set date to 1970-01-01 00:00:00 including timezone offset (+1 for CET) then run sudo su

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