Your message dated Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:59:18 -0600 (MDT)
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and subject line problem appears to be resolved
has caused the Debian Bug report #477697,
regarding sudo refuses to run if hostname cannot be looked up
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477697: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477697
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Package: sudo
Version: 1.6.9p15-1
Severity: important
If you have a problem with your hostname configuration, and you can't
look up the computer's hostname, sudo will fail to run.
This is important because _sudo is needed to repair the
misconfiguration_, in effect you can't fix this problem without 1. luck
or 2. single user mode
See also
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473828
Ubuntu bug: sudo shouldn’t ABSOLUTELY NEED to look up the host it’s
running on
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/32906
This is also important since I came across this problem when a gnome
settings application misconfigured my system[*]
[*] Noting that I wasn't a dumb user shooting myself in the foot, but a bug
in network-admin hosed my system.
Bug#473827: /usr/bin/network-admin: network-admin miswrites etc/hosts
hostname and alias
http://bugs.debian.org/473827
Regards
Ulrik Sverdrup
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages sudo depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpam-modules 0.99.7.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
sudo recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Recent versions of sudo with typical sudoers content will emit a warning
that the hostname cannot be resolved but proceed to run the desired command
anyway.
Closing this bug.
Bdale
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