From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: SU commands from Emacs Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:27:46 +0200 Message-ID: References: <878x8ahxho.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187378898 29755 80.91.229.12 (17 Aug 2007 19:28:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:28:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 17 21:28:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IM7US-0004JD-M1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:28:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IM7US-0001FF-71 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:28:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IM7U8-0001DD-Lv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:27:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IM7U7-0001CV-55 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:27:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IM7U6-0001CL-TR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:27:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IM7U6-0006Xn-IK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:27:50 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE14996F4596; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:27:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [62.134.233.39] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.108 #197) id 1IM7U5-0004m0-00; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:27:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: <878x8ahxho.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/LVjVnMpk94JFuwl18M1A5zHa+wMf1JWS1Mmhu 0BUjXvsGfd36pwocuMhTcuHNJhdSJMnnl7xISjmqtJj7g4hEAh Gps/vQ2bQ5Q2axm1UczQ== X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46656 Archived-At: Am 17.08.2007 um 19:38 schrieb Joel J. Adamson: > I have sudo installed on Slackware Linux 12.0, but the password > prompt does not come up properly. What do you mean? It's correct behaviour when the password prompt appears in mini-buffer and every character you type there is replaced by a dot character. -- Greetings Pete "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." George W. Bush