How do I re-enable an sudo lecture, once it's been seen
I have sudo set to show the usual lecture on its first use by a user. Without thinking, I accidentally triggered its display for a new user as I was setting them up, and now it's been shown, they won't get to see it again.
How does sudo know that a user has invoked it once before? I'd like to reset that so that this user will see the message first time they use it. I don't want to set it so that the lecture appears on every invocation - once is enough - I'd just like sudo to forget that it's already been shown once.
Any ideas how I do that?
On Debian, a user's first use of sudo
will create a directory under /var/run/sudo/
. The directory is named "username", where "username" is the name of the user which ran sudo
.
Removing [or renaming] this directory will cause the lecture to be displayed upon next use of sudo
, as well as recreate the directory.
For example, the directory for my user account would be /var/run/sudo/jscott
.