Something missing in the sudoers(5) manual page

Bug #1424622 reported by Marius Gedminas
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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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Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote :
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Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote :

This bug also affects trusty but not precise.

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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote :

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.

[1] See the list of tags on the right side of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo, or try typing something. Most tags will autocomplete when you edit them. :)

tags: added: manpage trusty
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