I am trying to compile some sources using a makefile. In the makefile there is a bunch of commands that need to be ran as sudo.
When I compile the sources from a terminal all goes fine and the make is paused the first time a sudo command is ran waiting for password. Once I type in the password, make resumes and completes.
But I would like to be able to compile the sources in NetBeans. So, I started a project and showed netbeans where to find the sources, but when I compile the project it gives the error:
sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified
The first time it hits a sudo command.
I have looked up the issue on the internet and all the solutions I found point to one thing: disabling the password for this user. Since the user in question here is root. I do not want to do that.
Is there any other solution?
Granting the user to use that command without prompting for password should resolve the problem. First open a shell console and type:
sudo visudo
Then edit that file to add to the very end:
username ALL = NOPASSWD: /fullpath/to/command, /fullpath/to/othercommand
eg
john ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/poweroff, /sbin/start, /sbin/stop
will allow user john to sudo poweroff, start and stop without being prompted for password.
Look at the bottom of the screen for the keystrokes you need to use in visudo - this is not vi by the way - and exit without saving at the first sign of any problem. Health warning: corrupting this file will have serious consequences, edit with care!
Try:
Use NOPASSWD line for all commands, I mean:
jenkins ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
Put the line after all other lines in the sudoers file.
That worked for me (Ubuntu 14.04).
Try:
ssh -t remotehost "sudo <cmd>"
This will remove the above errors.
After all alternatives, I found:
sudo -S <cmd>
The -S (stdin) option causes sudo to read the password from the standard input instead of the terminal device.
Source
Above command still needs password to be entered. To remove entering password manually, in cases like jenkins, this command works:
echo <password> | sudo -S <cmd>
sudo by default will read the password from the attached terminal. Your problem is that there is no terminal attached when it is run from the netbeans console. So you have to use an alternative way to enter the password: that is called the askpass program.
The askpass program is not a particular program, but any program that can ask for a password. For example in my system x11-ssh-askpass works fine.
In order to do that you have to specify what program to use, either with the environment variable SUDO_ASKPASS or in the sudo.conf file (see man sudo for details).
You can force sudo to use the askpass program by using the option -A. By default it will use it only if there is not an attached terminal.
Try this one:
echo '' | sudo -S my_command
For Ubuntu 16.04 users
There is a file you have to read with:
cat /etc/sudoers.d/README
Placing a file with mode 0440 in /etc/sudoers.d/myuser with following content:
myuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
Should fix the issue.
Do not forget to:
chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/myuser
Login into your linux. Fire following commands. Be careful, as editing sudoer is a risky proposition.
$ sudo visudo
Once vi editor opens make the following changes:
Comment out Defaults requiretty
# Defaults requiretty
Go to the end of the file and add
jenkins ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
If by any chance you came here because you can't sudo inside the Ubuntu that comes with Windows10
Edit the /etc/hosts file from Windows (with Notepad), it'll be located at: %localappdata\lxss\rootfs\etc, add 127.0.0.1 WINDOWS8, this will get rid of the first error that it can't find the host.
To get rid of the no tty present error, always do sudo -S <command>
This worked for me:
echo "myuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
where your user is "myuser"
for a Docker image, that would just be:
RUN echo "myuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
In Jenkins:
echo '<your-password>' | sudo -S command
Eg:-
echo '******' | sudo -S service nginx restart
You can use Mask Password Plugin to hide your password
Make sure the command you're sudoing is part of your PATH.
If you have a single (or multi, but not ALL) command sudoers entry, you'll get the sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified when the command is not part of your path (and the full path is not specified).
You can fix it by either adding the command to your PATH or invoking it with an absolute path, i.e.
sudo /usr/sbin/ipset
Instead of
sudo ipset
Command sudo fails as it is trying to prompt on root password and there is no pseudo-tty allocated (as it's part of the script).
You need to either log-in as root to run this command or set-up the following rules in your /etc/sudoers
(or: sudo visudo):
# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges.
%admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
Then make sure that your user belongs to admin group (or wheel).
Ideally (safer) it would be to limit root privileges only to specific commands which can be specified as %admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/path/to/program
I think I can help someone with my case.
First, I changed the user setting in /etc/sudoers referring to above answer. But It still didn't work.
myuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
%mygroup ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
In my case, myuser was in the mygroup.
And I didn't need groups. So, deleted that line.
(Shouldn't delete that line like me, just marking the comment.)
myuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
It works!
Running shell scripts that have contain sudo commands in them from jenkins might not run as expected. To fix this, follow along
Simple steps:
On ubuntu based systems, run " $ sudo visudo "
this will open /etc/sudoers file.
If your jenkins user is already in that file, then modify to look like this:
jenkins ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
save the file
Relaunch your jenkins job
you shouldnt see that error message again :)
This error may also arise when you are trying to run a terminal command (that requires root password) from some non-shell script, eg sudo ls (in backticks) from a Ruby program. In this case, you can use Expect utility (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect) or its alternatives.
For example, in Ruby to execute sudo ls without getting sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified, you can run this:
require 'ruby_expect'
exp = RubyExpect::Expect.spawn('sudo ls', :debug => true)
exp.procedure do
each do
expect "[sudo] password for _your_username_:" do
send _your_password_
end
end
end
[this uses one of the alternatives to Expect TCL extension: ruby_expect gem].
For the reference, in case someone else encounter the same issue, I was stuck during a good hour with this error which should not happen since I was using the NOPASSWD parameter.
What I did NOT know was that sudo may raise the exact same error message when there is no tty and the command the user try to launch is not part of the allowed command in the /etc/sudoers file.
Here a simplified example of my file content with my issue:
bguser ALL = NOPASSWD: \
command_a arg_a, \
command_b arg_b \
command_c arg_c
When bguser will try to launch "sudo command_b arg_b" without any tty (bguser being used for some daemon), then he will encounter the error "no tty present and no askpass program specified".
Why?
Because a comma is missing at the end of line in the /etc/sudoers file...
(I even wonder if this is an expected behavior and not a bug in sudo since the correct error message for such case shoud be "Sorry, user bguser is not allowed to execute etc.")
I was getting this error because I had limited my user to only a single executable 'systemctl' and had misconfigured the visudo file.
Here's what I had:
jenkins ALL=NOPASSWD: systemctl
However, you need to include the full path to the executable, even if it is on your path by default, for example:
jenkins ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/systemctl
This allows my jenkins user to restart services but not have full root access
If you add this line to your /etc/sudoers (via visudo) it will fix this problem without having to disable entering your password and when an alias for sudo -S won't work (scripts calling sudo):
Defaults visiblepw
Of course read the manual yourself to understand it, but I think for my use case of running in an LXD container via lxc exec instance -- /bin/bash its pretty safe since it isn't printing the password over a network.
Using pipeline:
echo your_pswd | sudo -S your_cmd
Using here-document:
sudo -S cmd <<eof
pwd
eof
#remember to put the above two lines without "any" indentations.
Open a terminal to ask password (whichever works):
gnome-terminal -e "sudo cmd"
xterm -e "sudo cmd"
I faced this issue when working on an Ubuntu 20.04 server.
I was trying to run a sudo command from a remote machine to deploy an app to the server. However when I run the command I get the error:
sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified
The remote script failed with exit code 1
Here's how I fixed it:
The issue is caused by executing a sudo command which tries to request for a password, but sudo does not have access to a tty to prompt the user for a passphrase. As it can’t find a tty, sudo falls back to an askpass method but can’t find an askpass command configured, so the sudo command fails.
To fix this you need to be able to run sudo for that specific user with no password requirements. The no password requirements is configured in the /etc/sudoers file. To configure it run either of the commands below:
sudo nano /etc/sudoers
OR
sudo visudo
Note: This opens the /etc/sudoers file using your default editor.
Next, Add the following line at the bottom of the file:
# Allow members to run all commands without a password
my_user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
Note: Replace my_user with your actual user
If you want the user to run specific commands you can specify them
# Allow members to run specific commands without a password
my_user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/bin/myCommand
OR
# Allow members to run specific commands without a password
my_user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /bin/myCommand, /bin/myCommand, /bin/myCommand
Save the changes and exit the file.
For more help, read the resource in this link: sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified
That's all.
I hope this helps
The solution to the problem is
If you came across this issue anywhere else apart from the Jenkins instance follow this from the 2nd step. The first step is for the user who is having issue with the Jenkins instance.
Go to Jenkins instance of Google Cloud Console.
Enter the commands
sudo su
visudo -f /etc/sudoers
Add following line at the end
jenkins ALL= NOPASSWD: ALL
Checkout here to understand the rootcause of this issue
No one told what could cause this error, in case of migration from one host to another, remember about checking hostname in sudoers file:
So this is my /etc/sudoers config
User_Alias POWERUSER = user_name
Cmnd_Alias SKILL = /root/bin/sudo_auth_wrapper.sh
POWERUSER hostname=(root:root) NOPASSWD: SKILL
if it doesn't match
uname -a
Linux other_hostname 3.10.17 #1 SMP Wed Oct 23 16:28:33 CDT 2013 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4130T CPU # 2.90GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
it will pop up this error:
no tty present and no askpass program specified
Other options, not based on NOPASSWD:
Start Netbeans with root privilege ((sudo netbeans) or similar) which will presumably fork the build process with root and thus sudo will automatically succeed.
Make the operations you need to do suexec -- make them owned by root, and set mode to 4755. (This will of course let any user on the machine run them.) That way, they don't need sudo at all.
Creating virtual hard disk files with bootsectors shouldn't need sudo at all. Files are just files, and bootsectors are just data. Even the virtual machine shouldn't necessarily need root, unless you do advanced device forwarding.
Although this question is old, it is still relevant for my more or less up-to-date system. After enabling debug mode of sudo (Debug sudo /var/log/sudo_debug all#info in /etc/sudo.conf) I was pointed to /dev: "/dev is world writable". So you might need to check the tty file permissions, especially those of the directory where the tty/pts node resides in.
I was able to get this done but please make sure to follow the steps properly.
This is for the anyone who is getting import errors.
Step1: Check if files and folders have got execute permission issue.
Linux user use:
chmod 777 filename
Step2: Check which user has the permission to execute it.
Step3: open terminal type this command.
sudo visudo
add this lines to the code below
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
nobody ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/ALL
this is to grant permission to execute the script and allow it to use all the libraries. The user generally is 'nobody' or 'www-data'.
now edit your code as
echo shell_exec('sudo -u the_user_of_the_file python your_file_name.py 2>&1');
go to terminal to check if the process is running
type this there...
ps aux | grep python
this will output all the process running in python.
Add Ons:
use the below code to check the users in your system
cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd
Thank You!
1 open /etc/sudoers
type sudo vi /etc/sudoers. This will open your file in edit mode.
2 Add/Modify linux user
Look for the entry for Linux user. Modify as below if found or add a new line.
<USERNAME> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
3 Save and Exit from edit mode
I had the same error message when I was trying to mount sshfs which required sudo : the command is something like this :
sshfs -o sftp_server="/usr/bin/sudo /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server" user#my.server.tld:/var/www /mnt/sshfs/www
by adding the option -o debug
sshfs -o debug -o sftp_server="/usr/bin/sudo /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server" user#my.server.tld:/var/www /mnt/sshfs/www
I had the same message of this question :
sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified
So by reading others answer I became to make a file in /etc/sudoer.d/user on my.server.tld with :
user ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server
and now I able to mount the drive without giving too much extra right to my user.
Below actions work for on ubuntu20
edit /etc/sudoers
visudo
or
vi /etc/sudoers
add below content
userName ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
%sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
I'm not sure if this is a more recent change, but I just had this problem and sudo -S worked for me.
Related
I am having to type "sudo" before most terminal commands, and am also getting EACCES errors sometimes even when using sudo when chained to a secondary file/folder.
I've done the standard setting of root user to admin, added my username with all permissions in visudo, and successfully disabled SIP. It may have to do with permissions I may have changed when I first got my Mac years ago.
Does anybody have any ideas as to what could be wrong?
Sometimes you use sudo command1, you also encountered permission denied. It's because the command1 will invoke another process which don't have root prividge. In this situation you can put command in a script, and use sudo bash script, or su to change to root user. And sometimes sudo filename also permission denied, it's that you not have the x priviledge, you can sudo chmod 744 filename, then execute the command.
methods to avoid type sudo passward every minutes.
method 1 recomended. sudo -i
method2 use sudo visudo or sudo vim /etc/sudoers and put this in it. this will make username user neednot to pass passward when use sudo.
username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
you can refer here for config for one command
hope helps.
Log in and open your terminal app. Run these two commands:
sudo echo >> /etc/sudoers
sudo echo "$(id -u -n) ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
Now you can run sudo without a password. Do normal stuff under your regular account and when you want to run as root for a while do:
sudo bash
macOS includes a "root user" that can be enabled using Directory Utility. Have a look at the following article from Apple: Enabling and using the "root" user in OS X. The article, while not explicitly saying it, implies that using the root user is the same thing as sudo.
The Apple article includes some warnings about use of the root user, but if you think about it, it's no more risky than deliberately disabling the password required by sudo. Either way you're creating an unrestricted path to root-level functions, so do be careful about it!
None of these solutions worked as things are. Ended up wiping my computer's hard drive and permissions settings went back to normal.
I used the following command in my script
sudo su - user -c bash <<EOF
cp /home/test.txt /opt/
EOF
If I use the sudo su - user on terminal, Unix don't ask me the Password but if I try to run the script the terminal ask me the Password and if I delete the EOF part the rest of code run when I quit the session.
I want to run the command in user mode sudo but the terminal don't Need ask me the Password.
If I use
sudo su - user <<EOF
code
EOF
I have an error in .bash_profile: too many argument
I want to run the command in user mode sudo but the terminal don't
Need ask me the Password.
The scenario you are experiencing is caused by the users cached credentials for sudo, which allow sudo to maintain a session and any further sudo command will not prompt for passwords.
Check this:
Open a new terminal and run sudo whatever, then close it and open another new terminal and run sudo whatever, you will see that sudo asks for password every time...
If you still need to do that, then you have the following options:
Prevent sudo to ask for password permanently:
run sudo visudo and look for the line root ALL=(ALL) ALL, then add a line
username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
then save and exit.
Note: This is a security risk
Or Prevent sudo to ask for password permanently only for specific script:
run sudo visudo and look for the line root ALL=(ALL) ALL, then add a line
username ALL=NOPASSWD: path_to_the_script
then save and exit
Provide password inside the script, by running your sudo command like this:
sudo -S <<< "password" command
Note: This is a security risk too.
I guess you need to execute your command as a different user. This might be your answer: Run a shell script as another user that has no password
sudo -H -u otheruser bash -c 'echo "I am $USER, with uid $UID"'
It is a quote from the link. Probably the following is better for you:
sudo -H -u otheruser bash <<EOF
cp /home/test.txt /opt/
EOF
UPDATE: You may wish to create a specific sudo rule to run a specific command without password (inside /etc/sudoers file -remember to use visudo to edit it-):
otheruser ALL=NOPASSWD: /full/path/to/your_command.sh
(of course you need root access to edit sudoers, I hope you can do it).
And create the script called your_command.sh that contains your logic. You'll then be allowed to run it without password:
sudo -H -u otheruser your_command.sh
I know, it's not a "single line command" but it is safe as it allows only one specific command without password. And it doesn't require a password, of course!
Then don't use sudo, then it won't ask for password, but you will to be have logged in as root!
I need help regarding chef...
-> I packaged ubuntu w/ gui
-> on vagrantfile Im running chef.. but because it's gui it doesn't run the installations (vagrant up)
help anyone?
additional infos:: gui = true
when running the vagrantile on a non gui box, you will see the installations on your terminal being performed automatically...
when vagrant up it stops here
Vagrant::Errors::VagrantError: The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.
Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!
mkdir -p /vagrant
Stdout from the command:
Stderr from the command:
sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified
Make sure that vagrant user is allowed to execute sudo commands without password prompt.
Usually this can be achieved by adding this line to /etc/sudoers
vagrant ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
Or just edit line with admins group (this is how it's done in official precise64 vagrant box)
%admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
Note that you should edit /etc/sudoers only with sudo visudo command.
P.S. This method is quick and dirty way, it's better to manage /etc/sudoers.d/ folder and never touch /etc/sudoers file manually.
Sounds like you vagrant user is not in the sudoers list.
Compare /etc/sudoers.d on gui and non-gui box.
I have a script on remote Ubuntu server. I trying to execute the script after the jenkins build is succeeded, But the error says like this:
sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified
The configuration is given below,
Can anyone help me?
Thank You.
The problem is that your script uses sudo at some point. The usual way around is to add the script that requires you to use sudo to the sudoers.
Example: in your script you use sudo service apache2 reload, now create a bash script containing that line and add that script to the sudoers file.
New script name: /home/quaser/restart-apache.sh
Use: visudo
Add at bottom of the file:
jenkins ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /home/quaser/restart-apache.sh
Now, in your script change: sudo service apache restart to sudo /home/quaser/restart-apache.sh and you should not be asked for a password.
I had the same problem, I solved that by commenting Defaults requiretty on /etc/sudoers
cat /etc/sudoers| grep tty
#Defaults requiretty
From the man page:
man sudoers | grep requiretty -A 5
requiretty If set, sudo will only run when the user is logged in
to a real tty. When this flag is set, sudo can only be
run from a login session and not via other means such
as cron(8) or cgi-bin scripts. This flag is off by
default.
So I made a tiny script to change my mac address but it requires me to enter my password to make the switch... what can I add to have it enter it for me?
sudo ifconfig en1 ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
you may add your ifconfig command for your id in your /etc/sudoers sudo config file
EDIT: I've realized by now that you can't actually do this unless you wrap these commands in a binary. For example, using the system() function from a C program. I guess that setuid shell scripts are such a bad idea that linux doesn't use them at all :).
While it can be dangerous in some circumstances, you can make your script setuid. To do this, put that command into a file like so:
#!/bin/bash
ifconfig en1 ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
Then set the permissions so that it's owned by root but only you can touch the file:
$sudo chown root file.sh
$sudo chgrp username file.sh
$sudo chmod 070 file.sh
Then make it suid:
$sudo chmod +s file.sh
Now you should be able to execute this file as your user, but have it run with root privileges.
You don't want to put your root password in an accessible file.
Better would be to make just that command sudoable without password.
Try entering in /etc/sudoers
<your username> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ifconfig
This says that your user shouldn't need to enter a password for sudo as long as the command is ifconfig.
You should probably read about how the sudoers file works in general first though. Don't know what is you're on, but here's docs for Ubuntu:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sudoers
Here are docs for OSX http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/sudoers.5.html