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I'm on a list somewhere, I can feel it (lemmy.world)
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[–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When I was young and installed my first Linux, I actually searched around as root if this was stored anywhere. But I never found it.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    https://askubuntu.com/q/641049

    TL;DR: it's supposed to send email to an administrator, but by default on some distros (including Ubuntu), it isn't actually sent anywhere.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    omg I totally accidentally enabled this

    I'd bother removing it but it's kinda funny to get an email reprimanding me when I ctrl+c out of a sudo command I mistyped, and maybe it will serve as a warning if it gets compromised :p

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