** Description changed: I was invoking bash as follows: $ env -i bash This caused this message to be printed: $ env -i bash > To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>". > See "man sudo_root" for details. While I think I understand the rationale for the message, I found it more confusing than helpful in this situation. I thought I had done something wrong, or that there was some error with the new shell I was - starting. + starting. (It was as if I had done something that suggested I was trying + to become root, which I hadn't. This just feels buggy.) The message is, I believe, caused by the following snippet in /etc/bash.bashrc (note that the "env -i" part above causes $HOME to not be set) # sudo hint if [ ! -e "$HOME/.sudo_as_admin_successful" ] && [ ! -e "$HOME/.hushlogin" ] ; then case " $(groups) " in *\ admin\ *) 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 It would perhaps be better if the if-statement also checked that $HOME is set (to refer to an existing directory?) before checking if $HOME/.sudo_as_admin_successful and $HOME/.hushlogin exist.
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