Perhaps sudo should try to use the name from /etc/hostname when gethostbyname fails? It looks quite simple to do that, and assume that you'll have there 127:0.0.1 (in both IPv4 and v6)?!?!?!
-- sudo shouldn’t ABSOLUTELY NEED to look up the host it’s running on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32906 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
