Bug 349237

Summary:	kdesu: Different hostname determination than sudo
Product:	[Applications] kdesu	Reporter:	tormen
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdesu bugs tracker <kdesu-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	tormen
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description tormen 2015-06-16 14:34:21 UTC

Also during my afternoon with kdesu I found out that :
kdesu uses a different mechanism to dermine the hostname than sudo !

kdesu seems to use (at least looking at the values) whatever the "hostname" cmd returns.
sudo seems to use (at least looking at the values) whatever "hostname -s" cmd returns.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Setting hostname to a FQN, for instance "my-host.my-domain.com"
2. Using "my-host" in /etc/sudoers
3. strace kdesu /usr/bin/true 


Actual Results:  
shows that kdesu uses "my-host.my-domain.com", but sudo is fine with just "my-host"


Expected Results:  
kdesu should behave as sudo determinig the hostname

Comment 1 tormen 2015-06-16 14:36:14 UTC

Problem encountered on opensuse 13.2: 

kdesu --version 
Qt: 4.8.6 
KDE Development Platform: 4.14.8 
KDE su: 1.0 

kdesu is part of kdebase4-runtime: 
i | kdebase4-runtime | package | 14.12.3-16.6 | x86_64 | (System Packages)

Comment 2 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 23:42:38 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.