The default sudo insults assume the viewer is male. I've been increasingly annoyed by that and decided to change this
behaviour. The only way to set your own insults is by setting badpass_message. This has the limitation of being a
single, hard-coded message rather than a list of insults.
So I've decided to create my own workaround.
First make sure to open a root-shell just to be sure. You're messing with sudo here and, if you shoot yourself in the
foot, you want to be able to recover that easily.
To create a new root shell type the following into your favorite shell
sudo suNow just leave it open until the installation ends. If anything breaks, you can recover by executing
cp /home/$USER/.cache/sudo/sudoers.so.bak /usr/lib/sudo/sudoers.soYou could of course also use other tools like doas.
Install with the following
git clone https://github.com/Emily3403/Suwudo
cd Suwudo
./suwudo.pyYou will also have to enable insults for sudo if you haven't already.
Do so by adding the following to your /etc/sudoers file
Defaults insults
According to this Stackoverflow post the only way to create custom insults is
by recompiling sudo from source.
If you compile and maintain your own sudo you may be vulnerable to a 0-Day exploit. You can mitigate this by always
keeping it up to date, but this design is not secure by default.
The sudo binary depends on a shared object located at /usr/lib/sudo/sudoers.so. In it various thing are defined, for
example the default insults. You can check them out by opening the object with any text editor and searching for the
string "Dave". It will take you directly to the place where all the insults are stored.
Now we can simply replace the offending characters by new ones.
You can try out the insults by opening a new terminal and executing
sudo suNow fail a few times :D
If you have any ideas on new insults or improvements for existing ones feel free to submit a pull request. They are greatly appreciated.