stty: unknown mode: doofus

[Bill Moran]

Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey at 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.

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Bill Moran
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