Bug 66

Summary:	Add target user %-expansion for password prompt
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	msg2-spam
Component:	Sudo	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	normal
Version:	1.6.0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description msg2-spam 2002-01-19 15:10:56 MST

It would be nice & useful to have an %-expansion for the password prompt that
expands to the user whose password is being prompted for (i.e. the target user).
 That would allow default prompts like "Password for FOO:", which is rather more
informative than just plain "Password:", especially when using sudo to run a
program/script that will prompt for other passwords.  It can get confusing when
you have consecutive "Password:" prompts and aren't sure which is which.

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2002-12-14 11:40:48 MST

The next version of sudo will have a %U escape in the prompt that does this.