Bug 274 – patch adding a %p to available variables for prompt

Bug 274 - patch adding a %p to available variables for prompt


Summary:	patch adding a %p to available variables for prompt

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	Sudo
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Sudo
Version:	1.6.9
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	normal enhancement
Assigned To:	Todd C. Miller

URL:	http://bugs.debian.org/454409

Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported:	2007-12-28 13:54 MST by Bdale Garbee
Modified:	2008-01-05 19:03 MST (History)
CC List:	0 users

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proposed patch adding %p to prompt variables (5.17 KB, patch) 2007-12-28 13:56 MST, Bdale Garbee	Details \| Diff
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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