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  1. Bug #32906
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 32906

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asmoore82 (asmoore82) wrote : Re: sudo shouldn’t ABSOLUTELY NEED to look up the host it’s running on

Sorry for the double-post, but in a more direct response to the YELLING in the topic:

If sudo behaved differently, it would become vulnerable to some sort of `HOSTNAME=foobar sudo ...` attack.