Why is there no switch off for sudo insults?

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#1

Or expressed slightly more courteous: I would appreciate if you were so kind to give the user the option to switch off the insults. The proper way would be to not compiling in the valuable feature, but add it via configuration in the YaST Sysconfig editor.

I remain respectfully yours.

#2

Enjoy the ban.

#3

This “feature” can in fact be enabled/disabled in /etc/sudoers, and it is OFF by default.

## Do not insult users when they enter an incorrect password.
Defaults !insults
#4

Look who’s crying like a child rotfl!

#5

Ouch! I’ve been missing all the fun. I don’t think I have ever used “sudo” except on ubuntu.

#6

On 2014-12-22 13:56, hayo wrote:
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LOL. AFAIK the default in openSUSE is, but not was, to disable the
insults in sudo. The insults are compiled, but the configuration file
disables them.


Telcontar:~ # grep -i insult /etc/sudoers
## Do not insult users when they enter an incorrect password.
Defaults !insults
Telcontar:~ #

But if you want to tell the team to not compile the insults, you have to
do so via Bugzilla, not the forum. I’d rather guess that if the forum
people had built that package, the insults would have been removed
completely :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)

#7

I still find the best solution is to just quit entering the wrong password.:expressionless:

#8

On 2014-12-25 07:26, Fraser Bell wrote:
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> I still find the best solution is to just quit entering the wrong
> password.:expressionless:

Nay. When I have to configure sudo and I’m testing it, I can not stand
the stupid insults. I prefer useful error messages that tell me what is
wrong. Specially in my own system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)