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Date:      Sat, 4 Aug 2007 10:25:04 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: stty: unknown mode: doofus
Message-ID:  <20070804102504.130007b9.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <0A638D13-F341-4645-B750-33B08730EDA7@goldmark.org>
References:  <0A638D13-F341-4645-B750-33B08730EDA7@goldmark.org>

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Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> wrote:
>
> During an installation, ports/lang/python24,  I did a
> 
>    sudo make install
> 
> And was prompted for my password.  I entered it (probably miskeyed it  
> as I was leaning over the keyboard from a strange position and got a  
> response back of
> 
>   stty: unknown mode: doofus
> 
> and was prompted again for my password, which I entered more  
> carefully the second time and everything proceeded normally.
> 
> It's certainly true that I felt like a doofus for mistyping the  
> password, but I was surprised to have the confirmed by some peculiar  
> stty message.
> 
> Enlightenment, beyond calling me a doofus, on this would be appreciated

Did you select the "insult" option when you installed sudo?  I find
it quite entertaining, personally.

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com



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