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to: Carlos E.R.
from: William Unruh
date: 2018-12-05 23:52:00
subject: Re: It`s bad enough that

On 2018-12-05, Carlos E.R.  wrote:
> 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.
>
Another good reason to use Mageia.

>

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