Bug 274

Summary:	patch adding a %p to available variables for prompt
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	Bdale Garbee <bdale>
Component:	Sudo	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	normal
Version:	1.6.9
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	http://bugs.debian.org/454409
Attachments:	proposed patch adding %p to prompt variables

Description Bdale Garbee 2007-12-28 13:54:50 MST

After some discussion about the confusion that can occur when nesting sudo and ssh invocations in the Debian bug report 454409, Patrick Schoenfeld offered up a patch that adds a %p to the list of variables available when defining prompts.  This new variable always refers to the user for which a password is being requested.  

I like this patch and am accepting it for my build of 1.6.9p10 for Debian, and would like to suggest/request that you accept it upstream for some future version.  

Patch without the Debian-specific bits attached for your convenience... I'm building using --with-passprompt="[sudo] password for %p: ".

Thanks!

Comment 1 Bdale Garbee 2007-12-28 13:56:16 MST

Created attachment 218 [details]
proposed patch adding %p to prompt variables

Comment 2 Todd C. Miller 2008-01-05 19:03:55 MST

Merged in sudo 1.6.9p11