[GRASS-user] Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper: strange sudo hints printed a tstartup

[marcos boullón magán]

Solved.

The Ubuntu Dapper has a new "feature", that prints the sudo message
reminder when you start a login bash and your user is in a group with
permissions to invoke sudo. It's a reminder only. You can trace it
back to /etc/profile file that calls /etc/bash/bashrc that shows...

# sudo hint
if [ ! -e $HOME/.sudo_as_admin_successful ]; then
    case " $(groups) " in *\ admin\ *)
    if [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]; then
	cat <<-EOF
	To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
	See "man sudo_root" for details.
	
	EOF
    fi
    esac
fi

Interesting enough, there is a direct way to stop it: if a file named
.sudo_as_admin_sucessful exists in home, you get no message. But
Init.sh pseudo-login in GRASS modifies HOME in the process, so the
filename check is not done at $HOME but at $LOCATION directory!

I can do...

$ touch gis/spearfish60/PERMANENT/.sudo_as_admin_sucessful
$ grass61 -text gis/spearfish60/PERMANENT

... and get no messages.

I hope this help you.

M.

2006/7/14, Carlos Guâno Grohmann <carlos.grohmann at gmail.com>:
> I also have the same behaviour on Dapper, using yesterday's CVS.
>
> Carlos
>
>
> On 7/14/06, Patton, Eric <epatton at nrcan.gc.ca> wrote:
> > I can confirm the sudo tip on my Ubuntu Dapper box, using yesterday's CVS.
> >
> > ~ Eric.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: grassuser-bounces at grass.itc.it
> > To: grassuser at grass.itc.it
> > Sent: 7/13/2006 6:14 PM
> > Subject: [GRASS-user] Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper: strange sudo hints printed
> > atstartup
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I start Grass 6.1, 5.5 or 6.01 on Ubuntu Dapper I receive strange
> > hints about using sudo for some purpose. No matter if I start Grass with
> > -gui or -text. I don't understand why I would need sudo for anything
> > with Grass.
> >
> > Example:
> >
> >         Welcome to GRASS 6.1.cvs (2006)
> >         GRASS homepage:                          http://grass.itc.it/
> >         This version running thru:               Bash Shell (/bin/bash)
> >         Help is available with the command:      g.manual -i
> >         See the licence terms with:              g.version -c
> >         Start the graphical user interface with: gis.m &
> >         When ready to quit enter:                exit
> >         To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo
> >         <command>".
> >         See "man sudo_root" for details.
> >
> >         To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo
> >         <command>".
> >         See "man sudo_root" for details.
> >
> >                 ^^^
> >                 those look strange!
> >
> >         GRASS 6.1.cvs (xy):~ >
> >
> >
> >
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-- marcos boullón magán
-- universidade de Santiago de Compostela