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Subject: Re: localhost in sudoers
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Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
>>>>>> Chris Whitehouse writes:
> 
>     Chris> The problem is this machine gets its ip address by dhcp so I shouldn't
>     Chris> enter an ip in sudoers. Is there a neat way round this?
> 
> Why not use hostname from DNS, instead, hmm...?
> 
> HTH

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?

Chris