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But sudo already doesn’t do that either. Eg sudo may ask for a password, and output some control sequences which hide the text so your password is not visible.

This feels like much ado about nothing.

Edit: Also don’t forget the “with great power comes great responsibility” blurb that sudo likes to output. I know that doesn’t happen in scripts when output is redirected, but I’m sure run0 will figure that out too.

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asking for a password to do an authenticated action is about as far away from surprising as I can legitimately reason about.

The contextual blurb does have a way of disabling it in a persistent config, which is easy enough to set. It also goes to stderr and not stdout and does nothing to alter the output of the command itself.

It also does not show if you have NOPASSWD: set in your sudoers. So even less surprising.

> sudo may ask for a password, and output some control sequences which hide the text so your password is not visible.

You can turn this off for certain users and/or programs.

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