I get this...

$ sudo -p GNOME_SUDO_PASS ls
password:

If this is meant to print
GNOME_SUDO_PASS:
then sudo's -p option is completely broken.

On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 11:04 +0000, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> The -p option is for sudo; it will replace sudo's password prompt for
> something; in this case GNOME_SUDO_PASS. If you call sudo -p
> GNOME_SUDO_PASS ls it must present you that prompt, but if pam tells it
> to use something else, it will just ignore this. We probably need to
> patch sudo to respect this while still displaying the pam prompt, maybe?
>

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gksudo doesn't ask for a password
https://launchpad.net/bugs/54582

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