Andrew, The -p option on sudo provides the prompt for the password, not the actual password. This helps Capistrano tell when sudo is prompting for a password. If you don't want the password to be echoed to the screen, require the cap user to type in the password on starting your recipe or when necessary to execute any given command.
Sean Cribbs Andrew McClain wrote: > There are a couple of times in my deploy scripts where I need to ask > for passwords; However, in the cap log output, I see those passwords > in plain text. > > I've been poking around the code to see how Cap displays " * executing > "sudo -p 'sudo password: '...", and all I can find is the sudo_prompt > method which looks like it displays the obfuscated 'sudo password: ' > when it can't find the :sudo_prompt symbol... > > Can anyone explain how this mechanism works? Or, an alternate method > from preventing my password from showing up in my terminal history? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
