Comment 2 for bug 32906
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| Moley Harey (moleyharey) wrote Re: sudo shouldn’t ABSOLUTELY NEED to look up the host it’s running on | #2 |
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(Get the code!)
I have experience a similar problem, by mistake I removed the hostname of my machine and it was automatically set to 'none', I re-started my computer and then I could not perform any task using sudo cause all the time I received the error: sudo: unable to lookup (none) via gethostbyname()
I had to re-start in rescue mode and add manually as root the correct hostname in the /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts files
Why does sudo need to perform a 'gethostbyname()'?