Your message dated Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:22:19 -0600 (MDT)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #299335,
regarding please remove the lecture from sudo's first invocation or provide an
option
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Package: sudo
Version: 1.6.8p5-1
Severity: wishlist
Although the lecture has never been something that bothered me a lot,
because it only happens once, it just came to my attention how complex
it may make applications which try to use sudo non-interactively, like
gksu does. Take a look here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=296414
I'd suggest simply removing the lecture thing, but I'd be completely
happy with a way of telling sudo to not display it. Would you accept
a patch for a command-line argument?
Thanks,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages sudo depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
-- no debconf information
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Modern versions of sudo have a '-n' (non-interactive) flag that achieves the
desired result, by causing sudo to exit with a discernable error code if
called non-interactively when a password would be required. This exit happens
before the lecture logic is hit, so the desired effect is achieved.
Bdale
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