Re: No error message if reading password fails
"Todd C. Miller" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.tools.sudo.user |
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 14:34:36 +0200, "R. Diez" wrote: > What is the "expected thing" in this scenario then? Is it documented or > expected that an "end of file" condition makes sudo quit without an > error message and without trying to run the command the user specified? Point taken; it is hard to tell whether the command was run or not in the absence of any kind of message. I've just committed a change to print a warning when there is an error reading the password, no password was read (EOF), or the password prompt timed out. For example: xerxes [/usr/src/local/millert/hg/sudo/trunk/src] % sudo -S id < /dev/null Password: sudo: no password was provided - todd ____________________________________________________________ sudo-users mailing list <[email protected]> For list information, options, or to unsubscribe, visit: https://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-users