!sudo <command> displays password in plain text

[ghost]

The password is displayed in plain text when running sudo.

[minrk]

Does !sudo it work at all?

I find that the password request doesn't receive the input at all, and never returns.

[ghost]

Does not work at all for me. The behavior seems to be what you're describing. It never returns after entering the password.

Also, I'm using 0.11.alpha1.git

[fperez]

On 0.11, we can't really run interactive commands at all that require user input into the subprocess. This is because we're using pexpect now.

This is a necessary limitation in the two-process model, but it accidentally carried over to the single-process shell.

I'm closing this bug because it's not about sudo, but I'll open a separate ticket to remind me of the fact that for the one-process shell, we need to restore the direct access to subprocesses we've always had.

Thanks for the report, I would have forgotten about this otherwise!