Subject: Re: bug#24231: 25.1.1: sudo displays password

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 09:42:06 +0200

Michael Albinus <[email-masked]> writes:

Hi Andreas,
>
>> Should it not be possible to suppress the plain echo in all cases
>> following "sudo"?
>> As the QT-shell does IIUC.
>
> That's not Emacs' job. As shown by my examples, you might be able to
> configure the sudo password prompt yourself. A simple
>
> (setenv "SUDO_PROMPT" "password: ")
>
> in your .emacs would suffice.

I'm closing the bug, because it is not an Emacs error.

Best regards, Michael.