system command requiring administrative privileges

[dusual]

For system command that require administrative privileges there is no mechanism to hide the password.

!sudo apt-get install grin
[sudo] password for amit: abcdef

The problem was encountered on ubuntu 10.04 with ipython version 0.14+

[takluyver]

Within Python, there's a getpass module for this sort of thing. But we have to send user input on to a running process, and I don't think there's a good general way to discover when the process wouldn't echo stdin. As a simple workaround, we could make a sudo magic function which would use getpass, then run the process and silently feed it that password.

[bfroehle]

Two points:

1. I cannot reproduce this on Ubuntu 12.04.
2. There are several potential workarounds, including:

• Hit ctrl-z to drop back to your shell and run sudo there.
• Run !bash to get a shell prompt, then run sudo.

For these reasons, I'm going to mark the issue as closed.