Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings • Hacker News Board

Re: Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings

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Post by bonzini » Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 5:42 PM UTC

tomatodevice wrote: post #37

pram wrote: post #12

I was always disappointed it never summoned some grumpy graybeard unix admin from a dark server room basement to give me a chiding lecture.

I receive mails from sudo incidents generated by my users, I check the boxes except the gray beard.

What about the red dress and flying reindeer?

Re: Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings

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Post by bee_rider » Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 5:42 PM UTC

DocTomoe wrote: post #29

steeleyespan wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A+ joke.

Only 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.

Fortunately we solved this; we don’t have any system admin to not watch these logs.

Re: Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings

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Post by jon-wood » Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 5:45 PM UTC

bqmjjx0kac wrote: post #25

its-summertime wrote: post #11

Stressful message to see back when I was a clueless child. I'm glad its getting removed.

I had a similar reaction to Windows 95's "An illegal operation has occurred." I remember wondering whether the police were on their way.

Way 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.

Re: Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings

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Post by forgotusername6 » Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 5:45 PM UTC

So 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/9757d29a24ac1872...

Re: Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings

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Post by jon-wood » Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 5:47 PM UTC

DonHopkins wrote: post #16

Why can't I report all those idiots posting the letter "F" in github comments? ;)

Strong 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.

Re: Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings

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Post by diebeforei485 » Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 5:47 PM UTC

Yes, it's important that things be clear. Hopefully we do something about man pages next, they are way too obfuscated.

Re: Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings

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Post by kmeisthax » Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 5:48 PM UTC

moogly wrote: post #41

My 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]

I remember getting something similar-sounding on modern Ubuntu a few weeks ago.

Re: Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings

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Post by jaggederest » Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 5:52 PM UTC

sph wrote: post #27

asdfman123 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just because we’ve never seen him doesn’t mean he hasn’t at some point quietly summoned a curse on us

Or silently reduced your quota by 20%

let me just run the tape eraser over the backups for that user...

Re: Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings

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Post by klyrs » Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 5:54 PM UTC

I'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.

Re: Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings

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Post by cobbal » Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 5:55 PM UTC

DonHopkins wrote: post #16

Why can't I report all those idiots posting the letter "F" in github comments? ;)

It's a low-effort addition to the dialogue, but it is a legitimate communication of a viewpoint. Who gets to draw the line of which comments should be nuked? (My view, the repo owner should (and maybe already has that power))