MOTD suggests to run an unrunnable command

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

On a clean install of Ubuntu on a device, install the terminal app from the store and open it.
In the terminal we present the "motd" (message of the day) which says:-

"To run a command as administrator (user "root), use "sudo <command>".
See "man sudo_root" for details."

We ship neither the man page in question, nor the man program itself.

The MOTD for Ubuntu devices should be adjusted accordingly, preferably removing that message text.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

Which package is this coming from? is it terminal app specific?

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

It's part of bash.

debian/etc.bash.bashrc contains this section.

# sudo hint
if [ ! -e "$HOME/.sudo_as_admin_successful" ] && [ ! -e "$HOME/.hushlogin" ] ; then
    case " $(groups) " in *\ admin\ *|*\ sudo\ *)
    if [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]; then
 cat <<-EOF
 To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>".
 See "man sudo_root" for details.

 EOF
    fi
    esac
fi

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

When do you see this, is it only the very first run of a shell? i.e. I am not seeing it
I think there are easy ways to suppress it entirely.