Commit 6ff4d40d by Abhijit Menon-Sen

Update outdated comment

We now use "sudo -n" instead of "sudo -k && sudo …"
parent b757798f
......@@ -356,11 +356,13 @@ class PlayContext(Base):
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if self.become_method == 'sudo':
# Rather than detect if sudo wants a password this time, -k makes sudo always ask for
# a password if one is required. Passing a quoted compound command to sudo (or sudo -s)
# directly doesn't work, so we shellquote it with pipes.quote() and pass the quoted
# string to the user's shell. We loop reading output until we see the randomly-generated
# sudo prompt set with the -p option.
# If we have a password, we run sudo with a randomly-generated
# prompt set using -p. Otherwise we run it with -n, which makes
# it fail if it would have prompted for a password.
#
# Passing a quoted compound command to sudo (or sudo -s)
# directly doesn't work, so we shellquote it with pipes.quote()
# and pass the quoted string to the user's shell.
# force quick error if password is required but not supplied, should prevent sudo hangs.
if self.become_pass:
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