Re: No error message if reading password fails

"Jepeway, Chris" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tools.sudo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Not sure re: this notion, but what about taking the password from /dev/tty if it's available and from stdin if it's not?


Chris.
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> On Oct 9, 2018, at 3:59 PM, Todd C. Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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
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