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Occasionally, I request something with sudo, but change my mind after the password prompt has arisen. If the program was executing, I could press Control+C to exit, but this has no effect on the password prompt. If it was gksudo, then I could likewise press Cancel.

So, is there anyway I could cancel sudo's password prompt besides pressing Enter multiple times, waiting for the wrong password dialogue?

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I was unable to find acceptable explanation for that. It does not occur with every command. For instance, if you try sudo ls you can usually terminate it using ctrl+c.

You can still press enter immediately followed by ctrl+c, that usually works.

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  • True. I can't find now what command was causing the issue with the password prompt. Did you happen to find one?
    – user1122069
    Jul 23, 2015 at 14:56
  • No, I was unable to find any, but I know they exist, because I have encountered same problem sometimes.
    – Hannes Karppila
    Jul 23, 2015 at 15:43

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