Customize the sudo “this incident will be reported” message

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Is it possible, on Linux or on BSD systems, to customize the sudo "this incident will be reported" message? I've gone over man sudo and man sudoers on an Ubuntu 16.04 machine, a FreeBSD 10.2 machine, and a Fedora 23 machine, and I haven't found anything useful.

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From Sudoers Manual below is the only message you are allowed to configure with the sudo conf.

badpass_message="Sorry, try again."

However to answer your question you are more than welcome to compile your own copy of sudo.

This would be the message you are getting.

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To know whether a particular user is having sudo access or not, we can use -l and -U options together.

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If the user has sudo access, it will print the level of sudo access for that particular user.

   $ sudo -l -U pradeep
     User pradeep may run the following commands on this host:
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If the user don't have sudo access, it will print that user is not allowed to run sudo on localhost.

   $ sudo -l -U pradeep.c
     User pradeep.c is not allowed to run sudo on localhost.

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So as you said yourself @krzysto, the solution is to add the following to the sudoers file

beans ALL = (root,apache) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/ksh -c /opt/renovations/var/script-*.sh 
beans ALL = (root,apache) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/bash -c /opt/renovations/var/script-*.sh

The next piece that is missing is to make sure that the group has execute permissions on the scripts, so that you can execute them.

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