Security News > 2021 > January > How to customize your sudo password prompt

In order to actually get anything done, those admins most likely have to make use of sudo.

As you are probably well aware, with the help of sudo any number of things can be done to your servers.

One way to do that is to customize the sudo password prompt.

Custom Prompt is the text string you want to use for the sudo warning.

Once you've done this, a user will see that warning whenever they use sudo.

Unset SUDO PROMPT. And that's all there is to customizing your sudo password prompt.

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