I recently found while reading sudoers(5) that it is possible to
change the prompt that sudo issues. After much Googling and other
struggle, I figured out the proper syntax. The line should be placed
after Defaults specification.
# Defaults specification
Defaults passprompt = "%u's Password: "
makes the prompt look like, e.g.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo -k
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo /usr/sbin/visudo
cdl's Password:
The invocation of "sudo -k" kills the timeout, so you can test things
like this without having to wait 5 minutes.
carl
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