Bugzilla – Bug 270
1.6.9 breaks custom prompts
Last modified: 2007-11-14 08:21:30 MST
In Ubuntu we configure sudo with --with-passprompt="[sudo] password for %u:" to disambiguate it if you do thinks like "sudo passwd", "sudo ssh ...", etc. Also, gksu uses the -p option to set a prompt which it can parse from sudo's output. Both seems to be broken with 1.6.9. With 1.6.8p12: $ sudo true [sudo] password for martin: $ sudo.old -p GNOME_SUDO_PASS true GNOME_SUDO_PASS When I build 1.6.9, I just get: $ sudo true Passwort: $ sudo -p GNOME_SUDO_PASS true Passwort: This breaks gksu (it just hangs indefinitively) and probably other frontends like kdesudo and kdesu, too.
Sorry for my typo in above description. "sudo.old" is the 1.6.8p12 version which I kept installed for comparisons.
Ah, got it. This is actually a duplicate of bug 180, but it is more serious now since 1.6.9 now uses setlocale(), so that the PAM password prompt appears translated. Indeed it works again if I call the new sudo with LC_ALL=C. So I guess my current workaround for 1.6.9 for the time being is to disable translation support in sudo by patching out the setlocale() call, until bug 180 is fixed properly. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 180 ***