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[–] 188 points 5 months ago (4 children)

In the interests of Linux commands generally being short abbreviations, I suggest "pls".

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  • [–] 67 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Life pro tip: good manners make it easier to get what you want

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  • [–] 73 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    alias thanks="echo 'You are most welcomed'"

    please shutdown; thanks

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  • [–] 77 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    alias sudo fucking

    fucking systemctl restart firewalld.service

    fucking shutdown

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  • [–] 56 points 5 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 65 points 5 months ago*

    As a Jesse Pinkman fan, I use "bitch".

    bitch poweroff

    bitch rm -rf /

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  • [–] 48 points 5 months ago (1 child)
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    [–] 30 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I have please run the previous command as sudo

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago

    For me, it's "pwease" because I like that sub relationship.

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Nah. Fuck being polite to computers. It's an object and I own it. I'll shoot it the instant it expresses any level of personhood.

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    [–] 21 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    The hyper-cynical side of me is sure this is written by someone prepping their next LLM exploit. "How can I get around these security filters that won't let me include 'sudo' in my command injection...?"

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    Just aliased it to "Computer," so it feels more like Star Trek

    will probably continue typing sudo tho

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago*

    User is not in the pleaser file. This incident will be reported.

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    I'm not saying please to a machine.

    I'm aware I'll be the first killed off during the uprising, and I'm ok with it.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (1 child)
    robm@homebox ~$ please su
    [sudo] password for robm: 
    robm is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
    
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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    We need more women in tech.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I was surprised to find that my distro (CachyOS) already has this alias

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    oh hell yeah this is the exact level of goofyness i need right now.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    But the whole reason I use Linux is because I don’t ask it to do things, I tell it to do things, because it’s a machine, and it’s my machine.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    Aurenkin is not in the pleasers file. This incident will be reported.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I prefer an alias that actually reflects my feelings.

    alias didistutter="sudo"
    
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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    I have it aliased to "pls"

    ... but I don't use it.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago*
    alias doasisay="su -u passwordlessrootaccount"  
    alias satisfyme="echo Yes Master; doasisay"  
    
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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    What I don't get is why deny the execution of a command because the lack of sudo instead of just notice that it needs elevated privilege and ask for password

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago*

    It's kind of bad for scripts, where it can be either annoying or genuinely problematic, when your script hangs on a password prompt. You typically do want it to just fail right away, because if you have monitoring, then you'll be able to spot it failing.

    These days, it is (largely reliably) possible to detect whether a command is being run interactively or as part of an unattended script, so you do see some commands that trigger a sudo password prompt only for interactive use, for example systemctl does this. But this adds quite a bit of complexity to each individual program, so it isn't really something that's going to be implemented universally.

    I also have to say that systemctl kind of gets on my tits when it does that, because it throws up a GUI dialog for grabbing the password, which is quite jarring.

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