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Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings
- Mordisquitos 4y agosohkamyung is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
- gopalv 4y agohttps://xkcd.com/838/ https://xkcd.com/838/ Well, if you have an incident list and nobody's checking it twice ...
- oconnor663 4y agoThat XKCD is actually mentioned directly in the commit message :)
- seanhunter 4y agoThank goodness. That was a terrible message. I remember my very first experience with unix was setting up Red Hat 3.0.3[1] at work for a small internet company in like 1997 and getting that message and just not knowing what on earth to do. There was noone in my company who could help me and all I had was a unix book from my local library which didn't even cover linux (but I sort of thought it would be helpful). [1] With the legendary 1.2.13 kernel
- johnisgood 4y ago"This incident will be logged" may have been better.
- raverbashing 4y agoYeah I think nobody checked any reports since a good 25 years now.
- nixcraft 4y agoBoy, I made so many memes around sudo. I can't believe they removed it. I mean, sudo does log messages in /var/log/secure or /var/log/auth.log on Linux when something fails or is executed successfully, depending on security policies. The default on most distro is to log messages.
- jamal-kumar 4y agoFor those wondering where the reports go, under systemd-based linux distributions ideally you can get them with this: sudo journalctl /bin/sudo Historically speaking however the sysadmin with access to the 'mail' command would be able to run that and see mail delivered to root@localhost for these reports. I think at least OpenBSD still does things this way [1], but they moved away from sudo YEARS ago now [2] [1] https://man.openbsd.org/security.8 https://man.openbsd.org/security.8 [2] https://man.openbsd.org/doas https://man.openbsd.org/doas
- dingledork69 4y agoOr you set up your system so mail for root gets redirected to an smtp server with an actual inbox read by actual people
- jamal-kumar 4y agoYeah, I kind of lament them removing this warning if I'm going to be honest. It feels like something such as that should be more common best practice. Of course decent log collection/monitoring should also be able to catch authlog stuff and alert accordingly and I'm sure most organizations rely on solutions like that instead of letting things get lost in email
- stefncb 4y agoIt's only removed if sudo doesn't send mail. It still warns if it's relevant.
- electroly 4y agoThis is a pretty short diff and it clearly does NOT do that, unless you're saying they went back later in another commit to add this. They removed the message in all situations. The string "This incident will be reported" has been removed from the source code; it could not possibly print that message now.
- trollingagain 4y agoThe infringement has been backtraced and you will be reported to the cyberpolice
- its-summertime 4y agoStressful message to see back when I was a clueless child. I'm glad its getting removed.
- bqmjjx0kac 4y agoI had a similar reaction to Windows 95's "An illegal operation has occurred." I remember wondering whether the police were on their way.
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- Kye 4y agoI have genuinely had to reassure panicked relatives over this.
- jon-wood 4y agoWay back when my Dad worked from home, and had what I think was a Macintosh Classic II provided by his employer. I’d occasionally be allowed to play the games on it, mostly the pair matching one, which on one occasion crashed. Back then the crash dialog featured an icon of a bomb with the fuse lit, which caused me to panic thinking I’d caused the computer to blow up. Thankfully I hadn’t, and I believe that computer is still in his attic somewhere.
- nullc 4y agoA friend of mine ran a multi-line BBS out of his home when he lived with his parents. One day he came home and his parents sat him down to discuss the "illegal activities" he was up to with the computers. He was sweating bullets about the secret warez section of the BBS until eventually he figured out that it was due to an illegal operation crash message! (In that case it was probably desqview rather than windows)
- glhaynes 4y agoI got my first computer when I was about 6. It would boot to BASIC if there wasn't a floppy disk inserted. I typed something random and got back "SYNTAX ERROR". I wasn't old enough to know what either sin or taxes were, but my impression was they were both real bad.
- pram 4y agoI was always disappointed it never summoned some grumpy graybeard unix admin from a dark server room basement to give me a chiding lecture.
- asdfman123 4y agoJust because we’ve never seen him doesn’t mean he hasn’t at some point quietly summoned a curse on us
- sph 4y agoOr silently reduced your quota by 20%
- jaggederest 4y agolet me just run the tape eraser over the backups for that user...
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoWas his name Simon?
- hprotagonist 4y ago> CLICKETY <
- midasuni 4y agoMove to Texas
- seydor 4y agoThey could at least have the option to report it to Santa
- DonHopkins 4y agoWhy can't I report all those idiots posting the letter "F" in github comments? ;)
- chewbaxxa 4y agoThey are just paying their respects.
- Symbiote 4y agoWhat does F mean?
- drexlspivey 4y agoIt's a call of duty meme, at some point your character is at a funeral and F is the action button and there is a prompt on the casket "press F to pay respects"
- jon-wood 4y agoStrong agree on that. One person doing so was possibly amusing, everyone else jumping on the wagon is just irritating noise, and I’m not even responsible for trying to sift through that for legitimate feedback.
- shadowgovt 4y agoThe point of the joke is that it's a bandwagon joke.
- DonHopkins 4y agoI disagree that it's a joke, because they're absolutely nothing funny or clever or original about it, but you're right that the point is to jump on a bandwagon, and it's intentionally ironically disrespectful of everyone's time and attention, which is also the point. It's really just a spammy childish 4chan troll. All Due Respect: Press F for Farce. Recently, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare became roundly mocked when images showed a funeral event where the player is asked to “Press [F] to Pay Respects.” https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/all-due-respect-press-f-for-farce https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/all-due-respect-press-f... >On the other hand, Call of Duty forces the player to Pay Respects for the game to proceed. It’s a mission objective just like any other, complete with an interactive reticle floating above the coffin. Furthermore, it’s embarrassing to ask the player to take this action explicitly. This is a military funeral! What else would you do, blow a raspberry? It’s no wonder players feel insulted. Ludonarrative Dissonance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludonarrative_dissonance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludonarrative_dissonance >Ludonarrative dissonance is the conflict between a video game's narrative told through the story and the narrative told through the gameplay. Ludonarrative, a compound of ludology and narrative, refers to the intersection in a video game of ludic elements (gameplay) and narrative elements. The term was coined by game designer Clint Hocking in 2007 in a blog post.
- justinator 4y agoSo no one checks these reports? No wonder we've had so many high profile breaches. Maybe this is what all those layoffs are about.
- steeleyespan 4y agoA+ joke.
- DocTomoe 4y agoOnly low-key, though. A sysadmin not monitoring authlog / admin-mail is a huge security smell. The fact that our infrastructure STINKS of this is one of the major indications we do not take security seriously.
- bee_rider 4y agoFortunately we solved this; we don’t have any system admin to not watch these logs.
- urbandw311er 4y agoNot true - the reports are checked. See https://xkcd.com/838 https://xkcd.com/838 (Sorry for posting this twice. It was just too relevant here)
- remram 4y ago(February 2022)
- lxe 4y agoThe "this incident will be reported" message always struck me as having the same vibe as the "provided by the management for your protection" labels they have on toilet seat covers.
- hardlianotion 4y agoAw - can't we just make it configurable?
- estebarb 4y agoI teach an entry level CS course at the University and my students got scared a lot when they saw that message. It was funny until I noted that they were really worried :( .
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y agoLGTM. The incident might not be reported, so that message may not be accurate.
- elashri 4y agoI remember the first time to have this message was at my first time using CERN lxplus during my undergrad. I was worried that people will think I am stupid to try "sudo apt-get" there. It was a mistake as I had several terminal sessions and forgot which one was the local. Anyway fast forward today. I know the answer to the question to whom usually this notification gets sent. They forward it via SMTP server to the person on computing shift (at least for some of the experiments) based on the experiment this person (who tried sudo) account belongs too. probably also some IT email. Anyway it is stressful for new and young people. but honestly I never read them. I have email rule to put them inside specific folder I don't usually open.
- bee_rider 4y agoThe first time I saw this message I was on my own danged system and I was still momentarily alarmed, hahaha. Common sense asserted itself pretty quickly of course.
- moogly 4y agoMy favorite message I got in Ubuntu in 2008 (I still have a screenshot of it): > Could not grab your mouse. > A malicious client may be eavesdropping on your session or you may have just clicked a menu or some application just decided to get focus. > Try again. > [Close]
- kmeisthax 4y agoI remember getting something similar-sounding on modern Ubuntu a few weeks ago.
- bvinc 4y agoThis sounds like an xwindows thing. The way popup menu windows work in x, is the program grabs all keyboard and mouse events.
- IshKebab 4y agoI suspect a lot of readers here will not understand what's hilarious about this.
- Buttons840 4y agoCan someone share even one story where sudo reporting these "incidents" was helpful? This feature seems to come from a world where elite hackers simply repeat the same sudo command over and over hoping it will eventually work.
- gtirloni 4y ago> Can someone share even one story where sudo reporting these "incidents" was helpful? No, not a single one.
- rbanffy 4y ago“And, if we did, we’d have to kill you.”
- salawat 4y agoFool, I have signal handlers defined for all signals! You won't be rid of me that easily!
- gtirloni 4y agoHN puzzles me with these downvotes. I have not a single story to share about sudo reporting the incidents and that being useful and I've managed *NIX systems for 2 decades now. Anyway, looks like there's some people out there there feel very strong about this.
- hoodmane 4y agoYes. More or less the first time I used Linux was on a fedora workstation at my desk at MIT. The very nice sysadmin down the hall sent me an email just a bit later saying "We see you were trying to install x program. We installed it for you." I understand that this is a very rare experience but the first time I saw that message, a helpful person was actually looking at these reports.
- hutzlibu 4y agoDoes this kind of sysadmin still exists? (or do they even still have the freedom to be so kind?) I cannot really imagine that happening today, at least not in "professional" context.
- ibic 4y agoAs it happens - "The warning was restored in a slightly altered form in 9757d29" ( https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/9757d29a24ac1872872cf09757b0439c54089707 https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/9757d29a24ac1872... ) - Millert.
- usr1106 4y agoThat makes senses. I already wanted to comment that showing an false warning is not good. But silently sending a mail of what you tried to do is worse.
- dan_linder 4y agoThis is great! Now when I break into a system I can quickly verify if they've got this aspect of sudo logging setup or not! Only 1/2 /s
- Dylan16807 4y agoChecking if the alarm is set by seeing if it activates seems like it's not particularly useful.
- couchand 4y agoNot to comment on this particular case, but this is a more useful tactic than it seems at first. Seeing the reaction that an alarm brings can provide lots of useful information for evading future ones.
- Dylan16807 4y agoFor some alarms yes. But for one where you won't even know if it activated unless you see the response, and there's little reason for anyone to care about it most of the time... it seems pretty niche.
- klyrs 4y agoI've always been amused by this, because I usually get it on single user systems (mine own) without mail. It makes me picture some shady office in a bunker in central Nevada, where undeliverable incident reports end up in dusty filing cabinets, indexed by incorrect passwords.
- forgotusername6 4y agoSo according to the comments it isn't actually gone, just the wording updated and now dependent on if you have actually set up the mailer to report it somewhere https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/9757d29a24ac1872872cf09757b0439c54089707 https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/9757d29a24ac1872...
- john_shafthair 4y agoThat seems pretty stupid. While they're at it, why not update the SSH warning banner with a list of what we do and don't log on this system. As a courtesy to their adversary. This sudo message has been the same since the dawn of time. There is literally no reason to correct it. This is the one place you don't want to be pedantic, leaking security configuration via stderr.
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- kragen 4y agosomething like 99% of computers with sudo installed are single-user machines where the only effect of the warning is to scare people and it's only been the same since people started to switch to sudo in the late 90s; su never printed such a warning
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoReminds me of when I was younger and my mom and my brother were using a windows computer. They got the message “an illegal error has occurred” and my mom called me to ask if they had broken the law.
- mr_mitm 4y agoWhen I was young I had messed with the computer and it showed an english message with the word "atom" in it. My mom not being a native speaker freaked out as if a nuclear explosion was about to take place.
- diebeforei485 4y agoYes, it's important that things be clear. Hopefully we do something about man pages next, they are way too obfuscated.
- rbanffy 4y ago[flagged]
- nickdothutton 4y agoThis would make a great (inaccurate) clickbait story about how millenials (or insert group) found the message too confronting/authoritarian.
- juliangmp 4y agoThis makes me weirdly sad
- rbanffy 4y agoSame. I like the surreally enigmatic message.
- blueflow 4y agoAt @dayjob, we have a mailing list for root@ mails. We actively use it for recording the output of cronjobs and like that. Several times a year i get sudo fail mails from random people on the terminal servers. A few years ago i actually compiled a list of the most prolific repeat offenders and they got a bag of marshmallows that have the form of coal nuggets right before Christmas vacation.
- sph 4y agoSounds like a fun workplace!
- shpx 4y agoNext step is to remove users/groups/sudo from Linux/UNIX entirely. I'm one person using the computer, running software I trust. I don't need it.
- sph 4y agoJust login as root. Not that I'd recommend it.
- mnd999 4y agoI suspect if you look in your passwd file you’ll find lots of users. Does nginx really need to read the files in your home directory?
- bmacho 4y agoWhy, yes. Imagine you are in flow, and you want to show a file to nginx, but you can't. Better give root (and user) rights to nginx when you set up your system.
- scraptor 4y agoVery few computers running nginx have human user accounts with more than dotfiles in the home directory. Meanwhile desktops run everything on the same account because defining usable security policies between users is basically impossible.
- mnd999 3y agoSure, in production. I don’t think that’s generally true though. It’s pretty common for developers to run an http server for test purposes. But anyway, that was just an example. I could have said cups.
- radiator 4y agoSo ...puppy Linux?
- CrampusDestrus 4y agoAnyone knows why it's even considered an "incident" at all? you might have misstyped a username or something, why would it require a report?
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- appleaday1 4y agoNo lets keep this :)
- abnry 4y agoFunny story. When I was in grad school, the math department office I was in had Linux computers administrated by the department. One day I was goofing in my shared office with a fellow grad student by playing with what resources were available. We were trying sudo and failed with enough silly passwords that we got the "this incident will be reported" message. I confidently told my officemate that these messages were never saved and recorded. A few moments later, from our open office door (which I assume meant all our conversation was able to be overheard), our IT lady from down the hall came in and said to me "Download the internet, really?" Because yes, I did type, while not saying I was doing so, "sudo DOWNLOAD THE INTERNET" into the terminal while goofing. Funny story but I did feel a bit embarrassed at the time.
- ec109685 4y agoOne of the most privileged processes on the system and no unit or functional tests need to be updated with this change. Sigh.
- enw 4y agoThis always surprises me. How come there are seemingly zero tests for what’s essentially critical infrastructure? How do you make sure things keep working? How do you prevent regressions as team members change and tribal knowledge and intuition is lost? How do you ensure all future humans working on the project can make meaningful changes with confidence?
- oblio 4y agoShort answer: you don't, you brute force testing with your user base and you get lucky until you don't, plus you don't care because you're too entrenched. That's how 99% of these old timey tools work (coreutils, SSH, SSL, etc). They're getting better but you can definitely feel that they're managed by old hackers that predate CI/CD.
- kitsunesoba 4y agoReminds me of using Win9x when programs crashed (as often happened then), prompting Windows to present those "This program has performed an illegal operation" dialogs. As a kid the only bit of that message that made any sense was "illegal operation" which made me wonder if I'd broken some law somehow.
- phendrenad2 4y agoThis is why I don't put easter eggs or obscure programmer-lingo into programs anymore. Every error is potentially user-facing.
- squeaky-clean 4y agoAt the very least if it's something where I need to include a technical error message or stack trace, I like to include something like "An unexpected error occurred! If this happens multiple times, here is some information you can email our support team:\n{technical output}" Of course often the support team is just me.
- BeFlatXIII 4y ago…but every other developer making the same decision has made computers boring.
- EvanAnderson 4y agoThe first computer at my home was a machine my father bought for bookkeeping for his business. I had a loose understanding of what that meant (around 8-9 y/o). I knew paying taxes was something he did. I remember looking thru the BASIC manual and seeing “ILLEGAL...” error messages. I assumed it meant that doing whatever this was somehow violated tax laws. Made sense to me since the computer was used for bookkeeping.
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- RankingMember 4y agoI remember seeing > FATAL ERROR and being like...uh...do I call the police?
- wolfd 4y agoWhen I was in uni, the computer science school actually did occasionally check these reports. Specifically, a guy named Chris checked them. Some friends of mine apparently used this to send him messages. `sudo hi chris`
- gvurrdon 4y agoSimilarly, at a place I used to work, messages such as "sudo echo 'Hey John, please would you chmod -R a+r on /storage/data/filename.txt, thanks!'" were used. This usually resulted in irate "Stop that! You have to submit a ticket!" emails.
- throwaway892238 4y agoThere's no need to update the copyright year, but I do like it as a canary to tell somebody the file has been updated lately.
- Ruq 4y agoJust change it to "This incident has been logged to /PATH." and that should be fine, right? Or, if you're really concerned about not exposing system log paths just mention it's been logged.
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoSo... how will santa know who's been a bad boy/girl now?
- brundolf 4y agoObligatory xkcd (one of my favorites): https://xkcd.com/838/ https://xkcd.com/838/
- barnbuilder 4y agoSocial media communities really ought to observe a "leave no trace" rule with respect to GitHub and other such spaces. This commit from February 2022 is now as of today littered with a bunch of joke comments from being linked from here and previously somewhere else earlier (based on timestamps).
- calebegg 4y ago> Social media communities really ought to observe a [...] rule Oh honey....
- unethical_ban 4y agoFeasibility and wisdom are unrelated. I just saw an IG post from a collab between a prominently irreverent burger popup in my town, and one of the most progressive wine bars in the city. It had a security guard kicking out a rowdy woman from a bar. The comments BLEW UP with people who had never had the burgers or been to the bar calling out the "cop culture" and the celebration of authoritarianism in the photo. It's a joke at this point, how angry people get at things that have the barest tinge of something to be mad about.
- xpe 4y agoYou might enjoy reading ann Atlantic article titled something like “I don’t wanna see you smoking pot”. It is an opinion piece about the importance of community norms.
- xpe 4y agoThe current title is "I Don’t Want to Smell You Get High": > I’m glad that draconian anti-marijuana laws have disappeared. But we need a taboo against public consumption. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/weed-smell-taking-over-new-york/673869/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/weed-smell... by Thomas Chatterton Williams Some snippets: > I received a huge amount of pushback for my remark (in addition to quite a lot of agreement), much of it premised on the idea that any social response to public weed smell would inevitably result in the warehousing of Black and brown bodies. In fact, I don’t want the police to put public weed-smokers in jail. I simply think New Yorkers should do a better job of policing themselves: a middle ground in which smokers of any color exercise discretion where the law employs restraint. > Tolerance is a wonderful value in principle. And as the intolerant have long understood, it is also a value that can be easily exploited. It works best when buttressed by agreed-upon standards and a common investment in informal norms... > The reflex to dismiss any criticism of violations against communal consideration exemplifies an evolving progressive politics, what the writer Michael Shellenberger has referred to as an ethos of “left-libertarianism.” In ways large and small, it has degraded urban spaces.... > When is the last time you’ve seen someone pounding shots of vodka on the subway? You haven’t, and for good reason. Drug possession was once a crime as well as a taboo. Now that we’ve optimized the admirable goal of ensuring that it isn’t the former, we need a redirect to preserve the latter.
- shadowgovt 4y agoCan't be done. That program is in the fossil record; change the error message and you're going to break a thousand unknown workflows that are relying on detecting that string (because string detection is the only solution they have to get nuanced information on the nature of the error). ETA: Oh wait it was actually committed? Color me surprised.
- chaxor 4y agoYeah I relied on that over heating to occur when pressing Ctrl for too long :D (Hopefully someone understands the reference)
- encodedrose 4y agohttps://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/ !!
- dawidpotocki 4y agoDon't worry, I have a fix just for you. Though it defaults to spacebar, so you would have to change the keysym yourself. https://git.dawidpotocki.com/dawid/xkcd1172/about/ https://git.dawidpotocki.com/dawid/xkcd1172/about/ GH mirror: https://github.com/dawidpotocki/xkcd1172 https://github.com/dawidpotocki/xkcd1172
- contradictioned 4y agoI used to mix up terminal windows, and on some occasions tried to call a sudo command on university clusters. But I always followed it up with a sudo echo „sorry wrong terminal“.
- NoZebra120vClip 4y agoAlright, did I tell my college sysadmin story already? This is the perfect place to drop it. 1990, freshman in college, Pascal class on AT&T Unix SVR3 3B2 cluster named "earth", "wind", and "fire". We'd just learned our way around "vi" and how to "uvapc" our Pascal source into a.out. I discovered anonymous ftp, and "make", and I quickly rose to become the gaming king of Pascal class. I had ularn, nethack, megs and megs of games crammed in my no-quota $HOME, and I'd opened permissions for everyone else to access and play them. I often chit-chatted with a classmate or two over "write" or "ytalk". Not content to merely play games, I became mischievous with the system and its inner workings. I created a .profile and a .plan, the latter of which used VT100 cursor escape sequences to self-modify the screen, such as changing my $HOME to "/" and I also made a boastful comment about having root access. It was all in good fun, and then came the day that I discovered /etc/passwd and I attempted to "su" to every single system account I found listed. I mean some of their passwords were just "*" so they must've been wide open!!1 I soon received ominous, chilling email from the unseen sysadmin of the whole cluster. He described to me everything I'd done up to this point, and he informed me that saying I have root access is like telling airport officials that I have a bomb. That point definitely drove it home to me as a young and dumb hacker. So, for the rest of my short college career, while I did some silly "extra-curricular" things with my own compute resources, I was careful to not try and break system security, or even say that I had, for fear of the wrath of the unseen sysadmin.
- Aeolun 4y agoSo did you have root access? I can’t figure out if you attempt to su all the system accounts worked or not.
- judge2020 4y agoNowadays /etc/passwd is world-readable and passwords are in /etc/shadow but perhaps /etc/passwd used to store the hashed passwords as well.
- NoZebra120vClip 4y agoI, of course, did not have root access or any access that I shouldn't have had. /etc/passwd indeed stored the hashes in SVR3, and there was no such thing as /etc/shadow. I was naive enough not to understand hashes, and so I figured that those jumbled letters in the file had to be the actual passwords, and if "*" was in an entry then "*" was, of course, the password! Why didn't it work?!!?
- kazinator 4y agoThe behavior shouldn't be configurable; it shouldn't exist. No administrator wants to be bothered by reports of a legitimate user who failed to type a password correctly a couple of times.
- salawat 4y ago...only true of course if you forget that user != user agent. Just because jschmoe seems to get his password wrong 95% of the time doesn't mean that I don't find the 9500 times he flubbed a sudo command valuable signal that something may be up. Especially if he can only recall ever using sudo himself once in a blue moon. There is the user in the context of the system, then there is the ultimate person interfacing with and feeding the system input and output. Hell, sudo itself is the perfect illustration of why an operator would want such a log.
- kazinator 4y agoSorry, I miswrote. The actual issue is not that the user hasn't typed a password right, but that the user is not in the sudoers file and trying to run a sudo command. Doing that just once is reported with an e-mail to root. (Would you believe it?) People have been complaining about this for years. It's a pretty poor feature. If the intent is to remind root that some users are missing sudo access who ought ot have sudo access, the phrasing is all wrong: "this incident will be reported" is disciplinary language, like the user has done something wrong. Likely they are just copying and pasting something from a web search (or got from an AI chat, nowadays). The entirely separate su program generates no e-mails from people guessing the password wrong. You can grep your auth.log for that, if you care. I just tried su with one bad password attempt on a Debian box. The program quit immediately and logged this: Apr 30 2023 15:37:21 localhost su[22401]: FAILED su for root by kaz Apr 30 2023 15:37:21 localhost su[22401]: - /dev/pts/6 kaz:root that is the real message to root: the log. Don't bug people with e-mails. The correct requirement of a failed sudo would be to emit a message conveying this meaning: "Sudo didn't execute your command because your account is not listed in the sudoers file. If you think you should be, contact your administrator." It should not be contacting the administrator for you.
- cratermoon 4y agoAs for your concerns.... they have been noted, and logged.
- gnarbarian 4y agoI say they should keep it for old times sake
- Reason077 4y agoThe message was actually re-added (in modified, clearer form) in a subsequent commit: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/9757d29a24ac1872872cf09757b0439c54089707 https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/9757d29a24ac1872...
- vbitz 4y agoOur IT Admins used to post the reports to a Twitter account (with usernames removed). https://twitter.com/moss_sudo https://twitter.com/moss_sudo
- charles_f 4y agoI love that a product decision for such a critical piece of software infrastructure includes a link to an xkcd comic for justification
- technick 4y agoWhy are we changing things that aren't broken? Did this message trigger some snowflake?
- benjaminmikiten 4y agoPer the commit message: > Whether or not sudo sends email is now configurable, so the warning may not be accurate. It is also confusing to the user since they will not know who the incident is being reported to.
- exabrial 4y agothat's pretty soft. wow.
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- isomorphic- 4y agoGuys. This commit was made Feb 3, 2022. Stop spamming the GitHub repo with dumb memes. It's not Twitter. The comments are for developer collaboration.
- fergie 4y agoWhat does the "F" mean in the comments?
- iruoy 4y agohttps://knowyourmeme.com/memes/press-f-to-pay-respects https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/press-f-to-pay-respects https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/f-in-the-chat https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/f-in-the-chat
- isomorphic- 4y agoSo, we're posting commits from almost 2 years ago as if they just happened today? Half of the comments in here can't tell it's an ancient commit; some people say celebrating saying "Glad they're finally doing this." What? Bit ridiculous to see all the pointless spam/graffiti in the comments on that commit now.
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- KETpXDDzR 4y agoThis change was partly reverted in https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/9757d29a24ac1872872cf09757b0439c54089707 https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/9757d29a24ac1872... TL;DR: Only display the warning if sudo is configured to send emails.