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gerardog / gsudo

Sudo for Windows
https://gerardog.github.io/gsudo
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Feature Request: Give users a lecture when they use gsudo. #332

Open septsea opened 7 months ago

septsea commented 7 months ago

Description

One is supposed to use gsudo (or sudo) with care, so we are convinced that it is good to give users a lecture when they use gsudo. By "giving a lecture", I mean printing the following text.

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

    #1) Respect the privacy of others.
    #2) Think before you type.
    #3) With great power comes great responsibility.

Proposed technical details

Printing the text above will work.

It will be better if users can determine whether the lecture is always shown or is shown just once.

gerardog commented 7 months ago

I obviously love and respect Unix/Linux sudo, but why this should be included in gsudo? Please convince me.

Also, should it keep the original text? Shouldn't it instead write an updated security warning, circa 2024?

As the author and maintainer... am I allowed to plug some text of my own in there? For example: Donate! give me money! for example. Ahh I already see you frown!

septsea commented 7 months ago

Also, should it keep the original text? Shouldn't it instead write an updated security warning, circa 2024?

Not necessarily; I guess that any warning that gives users a lecture is fine.

As the author and maintainer... am I allowed to plug some text of my own in there? For example: Donate! give me money! for example. Ahh I already see you frown!

I guess that most users will dislike it, but I do not really care. (I did not frown; instead I laughed a bit.)

(I really wanted to give you money, but "Donations to this recipient aren't supported in this country".)

I obviously love and respect Unix/Linux sudo, but why this should be included in gsudo? Please convince me.

There is no harm in giving users a lecture at least for the first time. No one says that there has to be a warning, but including this is better. I am just giving advice.

gerardog commented 7 months ago

The lecture could also improve the scenario described in #221.

septsea commented 7 months ago

You are right. Most users do not disable UAC themselves, but some do and still need some kinds of warnings. I did not think about such a scenario.

mattcargile commented 5 months ago

No need for a lecture as the users have to reach out and install this on their own. I would expect maybe Microsoft Windows to have their lecture in the OS.