On 03/12/2018 15.21, William Unruh wrote:
> On 2018-12-03, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>> On 03/12/2018 13.45, Kenny McCormack wrote:
>>> In article <ep1edf-f59.ln1@Telcontar.valinor>,
>>> Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> Sure, I have seen that in openSUSE. And if I typed the wrong password or
>>>> tried to use the wrong command it would *insult* me. This is a
>>>> configuration which I disabled fast:
>>>>
>>>> /etc/sudoers:
>>>>
>>>> ## Do not insult users when they enter an incorrect password.
>>>> Defaults !insults
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And openSUSE years ago changed the default configuration file to not
>>>> insult, but the software default was to insult.
>>>
>>> Just out of curiosity, what was the insult?  What does it say?
>>
>> I don't remember. That we would be reported to the administrator.
>
> HOw is that an insult? It is (presumably/hopefully) a statement of fact.

Nononono. The gist of what it said was that, but the wording was with
insults. And no, I don't remember them, I disabled them long ago - after
all I'm the administrator and what I do as user I want to give myself
permission to do. I don't need to be insulted by software in my own
computer.

Example:

sudo apk-get update
[sudo] password for saket:
Are you on drugs?


No, I do not see the humour in that. I see it as kids having the root
power and making poor lowly users suffer when having to use a terminal,
just because the could do it and get away with it.

And to be practical, getting an insult instead of a message that I typed
the wrong password makes people waste time trying to figure out what
happened.


You can see them here (google "sudo insults" - the last article has a
view at the sources:

<https://itsfoss.com/sudo-insult-linux/>
<https://www.tecmint.com/sudo-insult-when-ente...
<https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/when-sudo-insul...
<https://askubuntu.com/questions/837558/where-...





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Cheers, Carlos.

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