[sudo-users] sudoers problem

[Zbigniew Baniewski]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:17:12PM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:

> Sudo gets the IP addresses from the list of active network interfaces
> on the machine.  It current skips localhost, though it would be
> easy to just preload 127.0.0.1 and localhost.

I can't understand such default behaviour - is support for common "localhost"
name treated as kind of security-hole? And if so - why?
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						Zbigniew Baniewski