Tails - Nanny text appears when issuing sudo -i command

Is it absolutely necessary to include the nanny text message that appears when the sudo -i command is issued from the amnesia default account command line?

Such a lecture might be wise within an organization when a user is granted admin privileges for the first time, but for Tails seems counterproductive for Linux users from an inline operational point of view.

A better place for it is in the man page for sudo rather than inline in an operational sense.

Please move it to the man page and delete it from the operation of the command itself if at all possible as this would tidy up things at the command line for Linux users.

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Tails handles administrative privileges differently than your typical Linux distro (or even typical Linux Live distro). Because of Tails shows a custom sudo lecture text, which points to the relevant documentation explaining this, when a user tries to do something which isn't allowed. How can removing that sudo lecture make anything better?

Comment by Tails — Wed 28 Nov 2012 04:14:53 PM CET

Living history

I quite like seeing the sudo lecture which I think originated way back in Unix days. It's a piece of living history. It is still relevant to a system where you have an admin and different users and so is left turned on in Debian, hence in Tails.