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Old Feb 11th, 2008, 3:43 PM   #3
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Re: Switch User
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Originally Posted by Manpage
The -S (stdin) option causes sudo to read the password from the standard input instead of the terminal device.
There was some reason for the default behavior that I can't recall.
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