Subj : Re: It's bad enough that Usenet is mostly insults, now our software ins To : William Unruh From : Carlos E.R. Date : Wed Dec 05 2018 14:57:41 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 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: -- Cheers, Carlos. --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: SpaceSST BBS Usenet Fidonet Gateway (255:255/999) .