In fedora 22, sudo apparently defaults to sending mail out about unsuccessful sudo attempts. I have a bunch of automated tests that run on my system, one of them attempts to use sudo to verify that it fails :-). As a result I keep getting all sorts of mail about these failures.
I see lots of mail settings in the sudo config info, but none of them that are described clearly enough that I can say "Yea, that's how I turn of this annoying mail."
Is there a simple way to make the mail stop? Perhaps my best bet it is tell it to use /bin/true as a mailer?
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com wrote:
In fedora 22, sudo apparently defaults to sending mail out about unsuccessful sudo attempts. I have a bunch of automated tests that run on my system, one of them attempts to use sudo to verify that it fails :-). As a result I keep getting all sorts of mail about these failures.
I see lots of mail settings in the sudo config info, but none of them that are described clearly enough that I can say "Yea, that's how I turn of this annoying mail."
It's probably mail_no_user which is the only mail_* that's on by default.
Run "visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/no_user", insert "Defaults !mail_no_user", save, quit
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