Recently (since the reboot at Tue 2017-05-09 15:40:28 EDT?), when I open a terminal via CtrlAltT, or a terminal window CtrlShiftT (gnome-terminal,LightDM), the first text I see is:
To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details.
This message is coming from /etc/bash.bashrc, which is sourced by /etc/profile. It's generated conditionally:
if [ ! -e "$HOME/.sudo_as_admin_successful" ] && [ ! -e "$HOME/.hushlogin" ] ; then
case " $(groups) " in *\ admin\ *|*\ sudo\ *)
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
But, my $HOME/.sudo_as_admin_successful exists, and has since Nov 15:
$ ll .sudo_as_admin_successful
-rw------- 1 w3 walt 0 Nov 15 2016 .sudo_as_admin_successful
and groups says I'm in walt root adm tty lp mail dialout cdrom sudo dip video plugdev lpadmin sambashare wireshark libvirtd (Note sudo).
More detail, in response to comments (I'm not logged in as "another user"
w3@aardvark:~(0)$ id
uid=1003(w3) gid=1000(walt) groups=1000(walt),0(root),4(adm),5(tty),7(lp),8(mail),20(dialout),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),109(lpadmin),124(sambashare),149(wireshark),152(libvirtd)
w3@aardvark:~(0)$ pathlld $HOME/.sudo_as_admin_successful
drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 May 18 20:46 /
/dev/sdb5 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered)
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Sep 1 2015 /home
/dev/sdb6 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
drwx------ 191 w3 walt 147456 May 21 01:38 /home/w3
/home/.ecryptfs/w3/.Private on /home/w3 type ecryptfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,ecryptfs_fnek_sig=e377cfa845240aa1,ecryptfs_sig=5fa903fe1f605483,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16,ecryptfs_unlink_sigs)
-rw------- 1 w3 walt 0 Nov 15 2016 /home/w3/.sudo_as_admin_successful
Why am I getting this message? I've looked at this answer, but it doesn't seem to apply.
