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 17:02:21 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. -- Cheers, Carlos. --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: SpaceSST BBS Usenet Fidonet Gateway (255:255/999) .