On 05/12/2018 15.55, William Unruh wrote:
> On 2018-12-05, Carlos E.R.  wrote:
>> On 03/12/2018 15.21, William Unruh wrote:
>>> On 2018-12-03, Carlos E.R.  wrote:
>>>> On 03/12/2018 13.45, Kenny McCormack wrote:
>>>>> In article ,
>>>>> Carlos E.R.  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
>
> Ah, OK. I agree that there is no need for that kind of behaviour.
>
>
>> 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?
> I assume that that is an example you made up rather than an actual
> quote.
> but yes, there is no need for that.

An actual quote, hand typed by me from a photo in one of the links I
posted. I omitted the shell prompts for brevity.



> Note that I have never seen this behaviour and the word "insult" does
> not occur in my /etc/sudoers file (and I do not have a sudo.conf file)
> so I seem to have been spared (Mageia 6)
> .

Maybe your distro maintainer disabled it in the source.


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Cheers, Carlos.

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