authority

This is a sudo audit plugin that makes your computer play the "AUTHORITY" line from Baldur's Gate 3 every time you run sudo. Now your family and coworkers can know how much of a fucking nerd you are (they probably already know though). It'll skip playing the sound if it's played in the last 5 minutes to prevent things from getting too annoying.

I mostly wrote this as a joke. I don't recommend actually installing it on any super critical systems. In fact, you probably shouldn't use it on any system. Because of it's very nature as a sudo plugin it can break sudo if installation somehow goes wrong or you make a syntax error somewhere while editing it. Obviously, use at your own risk. There are no guarantees. It might kill your cat.

Installing

Because this is a sudo plugin, it has the potential to break sudo if something goes wrong with the installation. You should open a root shell with sudo su - BEFORE INSTALLATION and then CHECK THAT SUDO WORKS after installation in a second terminal window (sudo echo test). This will let you rollback the changes in the first root shell if you have somehow messed sudo up.

Before installing, install ffmpeg via your package manager:

• OpenSUSE - sudo zypper install ffmpeg
• Ubuntu/Debian - sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg
• Fedora -

  sudo dnf install \
    https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm \
    https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
  sudo dnf install ffmpeg
  

Once you've installed ffmpeg, install the plugin with:

sudo su -
make install

# in a second terminal, make sure sudo still works:
sudo echo "Authority."
# if that didn't work, immediately uninstall with "sudo make uninstall"

After installation, any sudo command should trigger the line. If you want to have it trigger the line again even if it already played in the last 5 minutes, just delete the ~/.authority-last-play file in your home directory.

Uninstall

You can completely purge the plugin from your system with:

sudo make uninstall

Alternatively, just comment out the Plugin python_audit ... line in /etc/sudo.conf to temporarily turn off the plugin without completely uninstalling it.