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.   
      
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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