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Subject: Re: localhost in sudoers
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Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:40:35 +0000, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> said:
> 
>     Chris> I think my question really is why doesn't sudoers recognise localhost
>     Chris> or 127.0.0.1?
> 
> And, BtW, while enumerating network interfaces, it skips those
> interfaces which're DOWN or LOOPBACK. If you've more questions, the
> quickest way is to checkout source code :) .

Well once you had put the code snippet in front of me I was just about 
able to follow it but unfortunately my coding skills are just about 
zero, so thanks to all the people who answer questions on this list.

Chris


> 
> HTH