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  1. Bug #8556
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 8556

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In , Andrew Moise (chops) wrote : sudo: Should have a more descriptive prompt than "Password:"

Package: sudo
Version: 1.6.8p9-3
Severity: wishlist

[moise@mole /etc/openvpn]$ sudo scp '<email address hidden>:/etc/openvpn/*' .
Password:
Password:

  Surely you can see the problem; without keeping careful track of
time, it's impossible for me to know whether the prompt I'm
presented with is a sudo prompt or an scp prompt. IMHO sudo's prompt
should say something akin to "sudo: Password:" or "Password for root
access:" to avoid ambiguity.
  I am aware that this would probably break some scripts.
  I am also filing a similar bug against ssh, since it's also guilty of
an ambiguous password prompt.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages sudo depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-8.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpam-modules 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam0g 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l

sudo recommends no packages.

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