Bug 107

Summary:	sudo does not prompt for the password before the process is sent to the background
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	slim shady <therealslimshady>
Component:	Sudo	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	CLOSED INVALID
Severity:	low
Priority:	low
Version:	1.6.7
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux

Description slim shady 2003-04-17 17:17:46 MDT

>$ sudo ps -auxc &
[1] 6520
>$ Password:myPassword

bash: myPassword: command not found

[1]+ Stopped     sudo ps -auxc
>$

Sudo should first prompt for the password before the process is moved to the
background.

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2003-04-17 17:21:21 MDT

I'm not aware of any way sudo can do this.  Sudo just gets a signal that indicates input was blocked due to being backgrounded.  The actual backgrounding is handled by the shell, not sudo.

Comment 2 slim shady 2003-04-17 17:32:46 MDT

-b argument addresses this issue sufficiently. Closing this bug.