From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: SU commands from Emacs Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:23:05 -0400 Organization: Harvard University Message-ID: <87ir7dhpw6.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <878x8ahxho.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187383367 13298 80.91.229.12 (17 Aug 2007 20:42:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:42:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 17 22:42:43 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 1IM8eZ-0006zK-4u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:42:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IM8eY-0003XE-MN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:42:42 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!elk.ncren.net!news.purdue.edu!purdue!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1187382238 27670 132.183.29.121 (17 Aug 2007 20:23:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:23:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VxdfV0oCxao8y5Tdk44S6YCBYgY= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151092 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:46666 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > 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. > Then I'm not seeing the normal behavior. The "Password:" prompt appears in the minibuffer, I type and I get an error (no dots). Perhaps I need to configure sudo? Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109