Good morning everybody,
sudo maintainer here.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 11:44:17PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
reprotest has the following comment and code:
# -h localhost otherwise we get annoying messages about "can't resolve host"
# especially when doing the domain_host variation
SUDO = ['sudo', '-h', 'localhost']
For the record (from the man page):
| -h host, --host=host
| Run the command on the specified host if the security policy
| plugin supports remote commands. The sudoers plugin does not
| currently support running remote commands. This may also be used
| in conjunction with the -l option to list a user's privileges
| for the remote host.
That says that the -h host notation has two uses: To run a remote
command (which is not supported by the suoders plugin anyway) and to
list a user's privileges for the remote host.
I'd interpret this as reprotest's call sudo -h localhost using
undocumented behavior.
I will talk to sudo upstream about this and report back.
Greetings
Marc
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