Thursday, 4 September 2025

RE: .sudo_as_admin_successful file

Hi Ravi,

On jeu. 04 sept. 2025 00:06:34, Ravi Kant Sharma wrote:
[snip]
> Proposal:
>
> I think this change has served us well and users are familiar with
> sudo now. A sudo user is created by default not just on Ubuntu but on
> a variety of distributions.
> 1. We should drop the sudo hint block in /etc/bash.bashrc.
> 2. Create a page (sudo) on Ubuntu Server docs
> https://documentation.ubuntu.com/server/ and move some content there.
> (I was going to create a page for sudo-rs as sudo providor anyways)
>
> The alternate is we introduce this feature to sudo-rs and carry the delta.
>
> Please let me know if you have any concerns. I am planning to raise an
> MP next week.

I think it's fine to drop it. `sudo` is way more pervasive nowadays than
back then (probably thanks to Ubuntu!), most generic Linux guides would
assume it as the admin rights access mechanism.

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