Re: change password prompt

[Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com>]

	Hi.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:01:33AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> On 09/19/2016 10:25 AM, Reco wrote:
> >	Hi.
> >
> >On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:59:03AM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> >>I had, on a prior machine, changed the password prompt for sudo by adding
> >>something (it was "ENTER NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODE:" in fact) to the sudoers file,
> >>but at the moment I can not recall what/how I did it, but I'd like to do it
> >>again.
> >>Anyone?
> >
> >sudoers(5) says that you should change 'passprompt_override' setting.
> >
> >Reco
> >
> I'm trying, but failing to find an example of how to use that, like the
> precise syntax to use.
> The man page doesn't give any example, so it's not clear how to use it.

This line in /etc/sudoers works for me:

Defaults passprompt_override,passprompt="ENTER NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODE:"

Of course you should use visudo, not edit /etc/sudoers directly.

Reco