When you first <code>sudo</code>, it says: <pre><code>We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.

</code></pre> Have you ever gotten the usual lecture from the local System Administrator? Did they put the fear of God in you? Or alternately, did they skip the lecture and leave you underprepared great power and great responsibility alike? Incidentally, items #1 and #2 seem to have been present since at least millert’s earliest available commit in 1993 and #3 was apparently <a href=“https://git.sudo.ws/sudo/commit/?id=e404f54c234d131887649afb48220f8de20a5339” rel=“ugc”>upstreamed from Red Hat in 2004</a>.