This is a completely useless post, but it’s possible to configure sudo to return insults instead of the default error message when you type the wrong password.

To enable this feature, edit /etc/sudoers (with visudo for example) and change the line:



Defaults env_reset 1 Defaults env_reset



to :



Defaults env_reset,insults 1 Defaults env_reset , insults



Open a terminal windows as a normal user, type a command with sudo and input the wrong password. Here are a few examples:

$ sudo bash

[sudo] password for testman: xxx

Are you on drugs?

[sudo] password for testman: xxx

Maybe if you used more than just two fingers…

[sudo] password for testman: xxx

Listen, burrito brains, I don’t have time to listen to this trash.

[sudo] password for testman: xxx

You silly, twisted boy you.

[sudo] password for testman: xxx

What, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, what?

[sudo] password for testman: xxx

You do that again and see what happens…

[sudo] password for testman: xxx

Where did you learn to type?

[sudo] password for testman: xxx

Your mind just hasn’t been the same since the electro-shock, has it?

[sudo] password for testman: xxx

It can only be attributed to human error.

[sudo] password for testman: xxx

That’s something I cannot allow to happen.

[sudo] password for testman: xxx

We’ll all be murdered in our beds!



This trick works with Ubuntu 12.04 and sudo 1.8.3, but does not work with Fedora 16. The insults are apparently only available in English even if your system is set to another language.

Source: Tuxplanet.