Subj : Re: It's bad enough that Usenet is mostly insults, now our software ins
To   : John Hasler
From : Carlos E.R.
Date : Thu Dec 06 2018 03:49:24

On 06/12/2018 02.47, John Hasler wrote:
> 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.

No, it is way more disgusting than that

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Cheers, Carlos.

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