Running a sudo command without a terminal

Thu Mar 19 03:10:18 UTC 2009

On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 10:20 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> The option is "requiretty" and you'll need to set to off.  Just comment
> out the line:
> 
> 	Defaults    requiretty
> 
> in your /etc/sudoers file by using visudo.

I think it's safer to disable it for a particular user instead of
whacking it for everyone on the system.

Defaults:someUser       !requiretty

Regards,

Ranbir
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