Sankasaurus » first http://blog.pas.net.au Just another tech blog - ranting since 2006 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:40:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 First Post – rant http://blog.pas.net.au/2009/01/first-post-rant/ http://blog.pas.net.au/2009/01/first-post-rant/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:55:00 +0000 Peter Sankauskas http://pas256.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/first-post-rant/ Well, this is my first blog post, so what should I write about? Why not have a little rant about something I discovered recently (at least on Ubuntu).

`sudo` depends on DNS
WTF? Why does something like local privilege escalation, which does not leave the machine I am on, have anything to do with networking. Further, why the hell should a network configuration issue stop sudo from working. And even further still, why would Ubuntu (which as part of the normal install process does not set a root password) allow something as essential and necessary as sudo to be depended on a functioning network configuration?
Amazingly though, a Google search showed this is a known issue. I really like the title of this bug: “Manually Configuring Network Causes Massive, Unreversable, Failure“.
I believe this will be the first of many rants this blog will see, so readers (yes all 1 of you… thanks honey), check back soon. I’ll try and keep it G rated, but no guarantees :-)


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