Thanks Jamis!
That fixed my problem.
On Jan 2, 12:42 pm, Jamis Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want cap to detect and prompt for the password, use the sudo
> helper directly, instead of run "sudo", e.g.:
>
> sudo "chown -R apache:apache #{latest_release}"
>
> - Jamis
>
> On Jan 2, 2008, at 1:40 PM, halbertn wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello,
> > I'm at my wits end here...
> > I'm using capistrano 2.1.
> > I'm overwriting the finalize_update task in my deploy script to run
> > sudo so that I can perform some misc linux calls. Here's a sample
> > call:
>
> > task :finalize_update, :except => { :no_release => true } do
> > # chown the new directory to apache:apache
> > run "sudo -p 'sudo password:' chown -R apache:apache
> > #{latest_release}"
> > end
>
> > I do see the 'sudo password:' prompt, however anything I type appears
> > on the terminal and hitting enter doesn't send my password over.
> > Prior to the sudo call, when I'm prompted for a password, I don't see
> > my character inputs on the screen, typical of entering passwords in
> > linux terminal,...so it appears that the sudo password prompt is
> > broken. Is there a setting that I have not configured properly?
>
> > I've been searching google, and part of the new features for
> > capistraion 2.1 is that it recognizes the '-p' option on sudo. As
> > quoted:
>
> > Use sudo -p switch to set sudo password prompt to something
> > predictable.
>
> > I don't understand this statement. What password prompt is "something
> > predictable"?
>
> > Thanks for any help!
>
> > >
>
>
> smime.p7s
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