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   Message 5,816 of 8,232   
   Carlos E.R. to John Hasler   
   Re: It's bad enough that Usenet is mostl   
   06 Dec 18 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:   
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   > 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   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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