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  1. Bug #32906
  2. Comment #47

Comment 47 for bug 32906

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

Martin Pitt wrote:
> I just have trouble with reproducing it.

Seriously? Here's one way:

Boot the 8.04 live CD
Open a terminal window
Enter the commands

   sudo id
   sudo hostname foo
   sudo id

Note how the former "sudo id" command succeeds but the latter one fails with
the error message "sudo: can't resolve foo".