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[Hans Joachim Desserud <1424622@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Added "trusty" tag based on your comment, as well as "manpage" since the
issue concerns a manpage. Feel free to add your own tags from the list
of official tags [1] when they are applicable.

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** Tags added: manpage trusty

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Title:
  Something missing in the sudoers(5) manual page

Status in sudo package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  $ man sudoers
  ...
       passprompt        The default prompt to use when asking for a password;
                         can be overridden via the -p option or the SUDO_PROMPT
  ...
                         The default value is “[sudo] password for %p:”.  The
                         default SELinux role to use when constructing a new
                         security context to run the command.  The default role
                         may be overridden on a per-command basis in sudoers or
                         via command line options.  This option is only avail‐
                         able when sudo is built with SELinux support.

  
  It seems to me that the documentation for 'passprompt' should end with "The default value is ...".  Subsequent text seems to be talking about some other option, but the name of that option is missing.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: sudo 1.8.9p5-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-31.41-generic 3.16.7-ckt5
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-31-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Mon Feb 23 15:01:42 2015
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-07-25 (942 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
  SourcePackage: sudo
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2015-02-05 (18 days ago)
  modified.conffile..etc.sudoers: [inaccessible: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/sudoers']
  modified.conffile..etc.sudoers.d.README: [inaccessible: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/sudoers.d/README']

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