Paasword

a minimal sudo askpass

Features

• cool animation
• outputs password to stdout
• ctrl+backspace to delete entire password

Dependencies

• Xlib
• Xinerama
• cairo

Installation

To build and install, run:

sudo make install

Setting paasword as the sudo askpass

To use paasword to enter passwords for sudo, create a file named sudo, with the executable flag set (chmod +x), in a directory that is located before the system directories in your $PATH (like .local/bin/), with the following contents:

~/.local/bin/sudo:

#!/bin/sh

SUDO_ASKPASS=/usr/bin/paasword /usr/bin/sudo -A $@