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
