Chris Moore <christopher.ian.moore at gmail.com>

(comint-password-prompt-regexp): Handle `[sudo] password'-style
prompt.

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index cb4029e1da7..7731ffa3dbf 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-10-23  Chris Moore  <christopher.ian.moore@gmail.com>
+
+        * comint.el (comint-password-prompt-regexp):
+        Handle `[sudo] password'-style prompt.
+
 2007-10-23  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
         * progmodes/f90.el (f90-do-indent, f90-if-indent)
diff --git a/lisp/comint.el b/lisp/comint.el
index 80a42dbdbfa..ed1f38bf1a1 100644
--- a/lisp/comint.el
+++ b/lisp/comint.el
@@ -334,10 +334,11 @@ This variable is buffer-local."
 ;; 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 \\|^\\)\
+Kerberos \\|CVS \\|UNIX \\| SMB \\|LDAP \\|\\[sudo] \\|^\\)\
 \[Pp]assword\\( (again)\\)?\\|\
 pass phrase\\|\\(Enter \\|Repeat \\|Bad \\)?[Pp]assphrase\\)\
 \\(?:, try again\\)?\\(?: for [^:]+\\)?:\\s *\\'"