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Who are forbidden sudo requests reported to?
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Mar 15, 2026400 viewsConfidence Score0%
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When I am forbidden to run sudo I get the following message: barack.obama is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. But who is it reported to, and how?
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Fix for: Who are forbidden sudo requests reported to?
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It is reported to the user configured in the mailto directive in the sudoers file. This defaults to . You can control what gets mailed and how verbose it is with the mail_* directives.
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