Subj : Re: It's bad enough that Usenet is mostly insults, now our software ins
To   : Carlos
From : John Hasler
Date : Wed Dec 05 2018 19:47:33

Carlos writes:
> 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-enter-wrong-password/>
> <https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/when-sudo-insults-you/>
> <https://askubuntu.com/questions/837558/where-are-sudos-insults-stored>

I thought we were talking about the standard "This incident will be
reported" message.  That's just a joke option that should be (and in
Debian is) disabled by default so that people with a certain sense of
humor can enable it for, as they would say, "shits and grins".  Nothing
to see here.

--
John Hasler
jhasler@newsguy.com
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA

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