jenkins fails while restarting my sql “sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified Sorry, try again.”

Question

I just configured jenkins and in the pre-build steps i am trying to restart jenkins but i end up with the following error

Commencing build of Revision c5b9f8daac         


        

Answer 1

By adding the following: Defaults:username !authenticate to your /etc/sudoers you should not get the error but this username will be accessible without asking for a password