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Title:
Stop emailing me bad sudo password attempts
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/2017/12/16/Stop-emailing-me-bad-sudo-password-attempts
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December 16, 2017
Edited: June 12, 2020
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I have cron setup to backup every morning and email it to my gmail account and it works great. A nasty side-effect is whenever I type my password wrong using sudo I also get an email which is annoying:
I’ve googled a bit but can’t find out how to turn off this email feature.
Contents of /etc/sudoers
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of
# directly modifying this file.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
Defaults env_reset
Defaults mail_badpass
Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin"
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
# See sudoers(5) for more information on "#include" directives:
#includedir /etc/sudoers.d