localhost in sudoers

[Chris Whitehouse]

Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> Chris Whitehouse wrote:
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>> I'm not sure what you mean. This computer is on a local network behind a
>> nat box and doesn't have a dns entry.
>>
>> %host 192.168.1.71
>> 71.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer eco.config.
>> %host localhost
>> localhost has address 127.0.0.1
>>
>> I think my question really is why doesn't sudoers recognise localhost or
>> 127.0.0.1?
> 
> Confusion between the IPv6ish ::1 rather than the IPv4ish 127.0.0.1
> perhaps? You can just put the hostname of your machine in the sudoers
> file and sudo will query the IP addresses of its interfaces at runtime

This pointed me in the right direction. I had put my hostname against 
127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts while messing around with trying to get it to 
work and forgot to take it out again - so when I put the hostname in 
sudoers it didn't work.

Thanks

Chris


> - -- or simply don't use the host based limiting stuff at all: that syntax is
> predicated on having the same sudoers file distributed over a number
> of machines, which is great for a large site with dozens of servers,
> but for a home user it's possibly easier to maintain an individual
> sudoers file on each machine you have.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
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