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On all Unix-like operating systems, sudo is often provided as the standard package. When sudo is invoked by the user for the first time, many systems print the following well-known "Sudo Warning":

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.

Password:

When was this warning message introduced to sudo? Under what background? By whom?

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On all Unix-like operating systems, sudo is often provided as the standard package. When sudo is invoked by the user for the first time, many systems print the following well-known "Sudo Warning":

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.

Password:

When was this warning message introduced to sudo? Under what background? By whom?

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  Oh, I never saw this message. =-O Does a "standard" Linux distribution count as "Unix-like" system?
  
  – the busybee
  7 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  


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  @thebusybee I'm pretty sure the same implementation is also used on BSDs nowadays, its maintainer Todd C. Miller is heavily involved in the development of OpenBSD as well. Although OpenBSD doesn't ship sudo by default anymore.
  
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On all Unix-like operating systems, sudo is often provided as the standard package. When sudo is invoked by the user for the first time, many systems print the following well-known "Sudo Warning":

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.

Password:

When was this warning message introduced to sudo? Under what background? By whom?

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The message was introduced in June 1993, in the Colorado University version of sudo, in a slightly shorter form:

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

 #1) Respect the privacy of others.
 #2) Think before you type.

The author is Todd C. Miller, the maintainer of CU sudo (now plain sudo, still maintained by Todd). The source history doesn’t suggest any particular background to the change. The message is typical of warning messages which were displayed when logging in to academic systems at the time.

The third item was added in January 2004, with a more interesting commit message:

Add Stan Lee / Uncle Ben quote to the lecture from RedHat

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  Interesting, so the Stan Lee quote comes from RedHat sysadmins.
  
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  Sorry, I'm too petty, I can't bite my tongue: the phrase "with great power comes great responsibility" was considered trite at least as early as the mid-19th century. Its appropriation by a cartoon strip is relatively recent. (EDIT: Wikipedia seems to cite it in French at least as early as 1793). This I write despite it being completely irrelevant to the answer given here, which is completely accurate in its quoting someone else.
  
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The message was introduced in June 1993, in the Colorado University version of sudo, in a slightly shorter form:

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

 #1) Respect the privacy of others.
 #2) Think before you type.

The author is Todd C. Miller, the maintainer of CU sudo (now plain sudo, still maintained by Todd). The source history doesn’t suggest any particular background to the change. The message is typical of warning messages which were displayed when logging in to academic systems at the time.

The third item was added in January 2004, with a more interesting commit message:

Add Stan Lee / Uncle Ben quote to the lecture from RedHat

share|improve this answer

edited 6 hours ago

answered 8 hours ago

Stephen KittStephen Kitt

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• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Interesting, so the Stan Lee quote comes from RedHat sysadmins.
  
  – 比尔盖子
  7 hours ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  3
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Sorry, I'm too petty, I can't bite my tongue: the phrase "with great power comes great responsibility" was considered trite at least as early as the mid-19th century. Its appropriation by a cartoon strip is relatively recent. (EDIT: Wikipedia seems to cite it in French at least as early as 1793). This I write despite it being completely irrelevant to the answer given here, which is completely accurate in its quoting someone else.
  
  – Tommy
  7 hours ago
  
  

  
  
  
  

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The message was introduced in June 1993, in the Colorado University version of sudo, in a slightly shorter form:

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

 #1) Respect the privacy of others.
 #2) Think before you type.

The author is Todd C. Miller, the maintainer of CU sudo (now plain sudo, still maintained by Todd). The source history doesn’t suggest any particular background to the change. The message is typical of warning messages which were displayed when logging in to academic systems at the time.

The third item was added in January 2004, with a more interesting commit message:

Add Stan Lee / Uncle Ben quote to the lecture from RedHat

share|improve this answer

edited 6 hours ago

answered 8 hours ago

Stephen KittStephen Kitt

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• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Interesting, so the Stan Lee quote comes from RedHat sysadmins.
  
  – 比尔盖子
  7 hours ago
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  3
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Sorry, I'm too petty, I can't bite my tongue: the phrase "with great power comes great responsibility" was considered trite at least as early as the mid-19th century. Its appropriation by a cartoon strip is relatively recent. (EDIT: Wikipedia seems to cite it in French at least as early as 1793). This I write despite it being completely irrelevant to the answer given here, which is completely accurate in its quoting someone else.
  
  – Tommy
  7 hours ago
  
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment
 | 

The message was introduced in June 1993, in the Colorado University version of sudo, in a slightly shorter form:

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

 #1) Respect the privacy of others.
 #2) Think before you type.

The author is Todd C. Miller, the maintainer of CU sudo (now plain sudo, still maintained by Todd). The source history doesn’t suggest any particular background to the change. The message is typical of warning messages which were displayed when logging in to academic systems at the time.

The third item was added in January 2004, with a more interesting commit message:

Add Stan Lee / Uncle Ben quote to the lecture from RedHat

share|improve this answer

edited 6 hours ago

answered 8 hours ago

Stephen KittStephen Kitt

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

 #1) Respect the privacy of others.
 #2) Think before you type.

share|improve this answer

edited 6 hours ago

answered 8 hours ago

Stephen KittStephen Kitt

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answered 8 hours ago

Stephen KittStephen Kitt

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answered 8 hours ago

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