Feb
18
Let Sudo Insult You When You Screw Up
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I recently found a fun feature available within the sudo program that will insult you when you do the wrong thing such as enter your password incorrectly. I’ll tell you how you can activate the feature for a few laughs and also give a few examples of what insults you might get.
To turn the feature on you’ll need to use the following command:
sudo visudo
(always use visudo when you need to edit your sudoers file as it has a self-check system that won’t let you screw it up.)
Find the line that begins with Default and append insults to the end. (Any addition to that line is comma separated.) Your entry will then look like this:
Defaults !lecture,tty_tickets,!fqdn,insults
Save the file and you’ll notice the next time you screw up your sudo password you’ll get an insult.
Note: to clear your sudo session and be required to enter the password again try:
sudo -K
A few examples below:
Maybe if you used more than just two fingers…I have been called worse.
Listen, burrito brains, I don’t have time to listen to this trash.
Good luck!
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this was fun, thanks for that…oh for the little things that please us
FINALLY! Something for us masochists.
JK
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The insults are included at compile-time. If you want to include your own insults you need to get the sourcecode from http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/ and edit the ins*.h files. The existing ones are quite funny already, though:
Just what do you think you’re doing Dave?
It can only be attributed to human error.
That’s something I cannot allow to happen.
My mind is going. I can feel it.
Sorry about this, I know it’s a bit silly.
Take a stress pill and think things over.
This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
We’ll all be murdered in our beds!
You can’t come in. Our tiger has got flu
What, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what?
You can’t get the wood, you know.
… and it used to be so popular…
Pauses for audience applause, not a sausage
Hold it up to the light — not a brain in sight!
There’s a lot of it about, you know.
You do that again and see what happens…
Harm can come to a young lad like that!
And with that remarks folks, the case of the Crown vs yourself was proven.
Speak English you fool — there are no subtitles in this scene.
It’s only your word against mine.
I think … err … I think … I think I’ll go home
My pet ferret can type better than you!
Your mind just hasn’t been the same since the electro-shock, has it?
Maybe if you used more than just two fingers…
BOB says: You seem to have forgotten your passwd, enter another!
I can’t hear you — I’m using the scrambler.
The more you drive — the dumber you get.
Listen, burrito brains, I don’t have time to listen to this trash.
I’ve seen penguins that can type better than that.
Have you considered trying to match wits with a rutabaga?
You speak an infinite deal of nothing
Very fun! I’ll blog that!
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When I enabled this, it seemed funny, until I took one insult at the wrong time, and I pushed my desk too hard…
Let’s say that the damage caused is enough to worry about, including a full reinstall on a new machine.
Amusing (in a geeky way)
Most of the time these insults are just kept in a header file which are sucked in at compile time. The sudo source (usually) come with more than one of these headers that you can use to tweak what you get. Or you can add your own.
For example, I get single-line koans when I mess up the login.
No thanks, I get enough insults from my Spouse, thank you very much.
JT
http://www.FIreMe.to/udi
Hmm, not working for me. Is there any change in Fedora systems?