Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Over the years I have used sudo from some of my scripts (RHEL 3 and
> 4, SuSE (5-11), but I found in Fedora 9 (and CentOS 5.2) that sudo
> will fail:
>
> sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo
>
> In this particular case it was run on a CentOS 5.2 system, but I had
> the same issue with Fedora 9. In both cases the user account was set
> to NOPASSWD. Actually, on my home system it was my nightly backup
> script I run from my crontab.
>
> There are certainly some easy workarounds, such as running these
> scripts from root's cron (cron.daily, cron.weekly, ...), or writing
> my own sudo command (which I've done before Sudo arrived).
>
> Is there now a setting where I can run sudo non-interactively, or is
> this a new security restriction.
It is, as mentioned in /etc/sudoers:
#
# Disable "ssh hostname sudo <cmd>", because it will show the password
# in clear.
# You have to run "ssh -t hostname sudo <cmd>".
#
Defaults requiretty
I don't know if there's a good way to run things via cron and convince
sudo that you have a tty. If not, you might just comment out the
requiretty setting.
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