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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It used to be in linux su would give some scary error message when you put in your password wrong that would say something like "this incident will be reported".

Reported to whom? I'm the only one using this computer and I'm the one that installed the OS....

[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

[–] ikoz@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

It's actually sending mails internally to the root's mbox.