ubuntu 7.10 changes the 'sudo' password prompt

["Chris Moore" <christopher.ian.moore@gmail.com>]

The new 7.10 release of Ubuntu changes the 'sudo' password prompt, so
now it says:

[sudo] password for chris:

The following patch allows comint to recognise it as a password prompt:

*** lisp/Backup/comint.el.~1~	Wed Oct 17 00:40:06 2007
--- lisp/comint.el	Thu Oct 18 16:52:59 2007
***************
*** 334,343 ****
  ;; ksu prints a prompt like `Kerberos password for devnull/root@GNU.ORG: '.
  ;; ssh-add prints a prompt like `Enter passphrase: '.
  ;; plink prints a prompt like `Passphrase for key "root@GNU.ORG": '.
  ;; Some implementations of passwd use "Password (again)" as the 2nd prompt.
  (defcustom comint-password-prompt-regexp
    "\\(\\([Oo]ld \\|[Nn]ew \\|'s \\|login \\|\
! Kerberos \\|CVS \\|UNIX \\| SMB \\|LDAP \\|^\\)\
  \[Pp]assword\\( (again)\\)?\\|\
  pass phrase\\|\\(Enter \\|Repeat \\|Bad \\)?[Pp]assphrase\\)\
  \\(?:, try again\\)?\\(?: for [^:]+\\)?:\\s *\\'"
--- 334,344 ----
  ;; ksu prints a prompt like `Kerberos password for devnull/root@GNU.ORG: '.
  ;; ssh-add prints a prompt like `Enter passphrase: '.
  ;; plink prints a prompt like `Passphrase for key "root@GNU.ORG": '.
+ ;; Ubuntu's sudo prompts like `[sudo] password for user:'
  ;; Some implementations of passwd use "Password (again)" as the 2nd prompt.
  (defcustom comint-password-prompt-regexp
    "\\(\\([Oo]ld \\|[Nn]ew \\|'s \\|login \\|\
! Kerberos \\|CVS \\|UNIX \\| SMB \\|LDAP \\|\\[sudo] \\|^\\)\
  \[Pp]assword\\( (again)\\)?\\|\
  pass phrase\\|\\(Enter \\|Repeat \\|Bad \\)?[Pp]assphrase\\)\
  \\(?:, try again\\)?\\(?: for [^:]+\\)?:\\s *\\'"

And uuencoded:

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end

Chris.