Re: armv7 vs buster sudo complains about hostname or something
On Thursday 04 July 2019 02:47:50 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Mi, 03 iul 19, 20:26:48, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 July 2019 18:06:18 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > > Hi Gene!
> > >
> > > On 7/3/19 10:42 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > Just one of the things its taken over. Now we have a different
> > > > command to set the hostname too if you want it to stick over a
> > > > reboot. Someone a couple weeks ago showed me how to do that for
> > > > hostname only. I've no clue how it does that because it can do
> > > > it even if /etc/hostname has been made immutable. In fact I'd
> > > > call that a major security breech.
>
> I don't remember using hostnamectl on my Pine A64. For reference:
>
> /etc/hostname:
> pine64
>
> /etc/hosts:
> 192.168.0.64 pine64
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>
> ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
>
> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
>
> > IF, note all caps, then why does sudo bitch so much?
>
> I seem to recall sudo cares about /etc/hosts.
But I have that address TAB hostname.domain.name TAB alias in the hosts
file. No errors there.
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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