Related bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/19553
>From what I understand, sudo can perform commands on several different hosts, hence it needs to know what host it's on. Personally, I keep the root account enabled, because I don't trust sudo. -- sudo shouldn’t ABSOLUTELY NEED to look up the host it’s running on https://launchpad.net/bugs/32906 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs