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.   
      
      
   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)   
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   > 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.   
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   > 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.   
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   > You can see them here (google "sudo insults") - the last article has a   
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