On 7/23/07, Jamis Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Mike Bailey suggested a more robust way to detect the sudo password
> prompt, using the "-p" switch to sudo to specify a standard prompt
> that Capistrano can recognize. However, before I implement that, I'd
> like to know how wide-spread the availability of that switch is. I've
> verified that it works on OS X, FreeBSD 6.2, and some flavor of RHEL.
> Mike verified that it works on Ubuntu. Does anyone else have access to
> some more exotic distros, e.g. solaris, who could check to see if
> 'sudo -p "sudo prompt: " ls' displays "sudo prompt:" as the password
> prompt?

Works perfectly well on gentoo...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo -p "sudo prompt: " ls
sudo prompt:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo -V
Sudo version 1.6.8p9

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