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Replace su by a message to use sudo

During the user testing of the Additional Software beta, 3 participants out of 5 tried instinctively su instead of sudo. In Tails the administration password doesn’t work with su and after that they got stuck to various degrees.

The other 2 participants didn’t know enough of the command line to do more than copy pasting things found online (sudo -i and sudo apt-get install mumble).

What about replacing the su binary with a message instructing to use sudo?

Feature Branch: feature/15583-replace-su-with-message-to-use-sudo

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Original created by @sajolida on 15583 (Redmine)

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