Hi! > As a result of http://bugs.debian.org/343268, sudo now uses a > grandiloquent prompt: > > [sudo] password for twb: > > This is not matched by M-x shell's password regexp, so the user is > suddenly faced with their passwords being echoed to the screen.
Just like gksu, everything that parses the output of sudo has to use -p to set a custom prompt. Relying on "Password:" is doomed to fail: - Users of sudo could configure a different prompt in earlier versions, too. - Current sudo is i18n'ed, and thus will output the translated version of "Password:" now. - If you use additional PAM modules (like pam-thinkfinger) these will modify the password prompt, too. So reverting #343268 wouldn't fix this at all. > PPS: this issue has affected Ubuntu Gutsy for some time. Because > Ubuntu makes it difficult for tty users to report bugs, I do not > report bugs to them, instead waiting until they can be reproduced on > Debian. You can send Ubuntu bugs by mail [1] or use a text mode browser. Or just mail me directly. Thanks, Martin [1] https://help.launchpad.net/BugTrackerEmailInterface -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org
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