Of course it is no bug in the sense that it breaks any specified contract, but ubuntu does not have a password for root and sudo is the only way to repair a wrong /etc/hosts. On systems with root passwords this would be a non-issue.
-- sudo shouldn’t ABSOLUTELY NEED to look up the host it’s running on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/32906 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs