How to fix 'sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified' error?

Question

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 sour

Answer 1

Running shell scripts that have contain sudo commands in them from jenkins might not run as expected. To fix this, follow along

Simple steps:

1. On ubuntu based systems, run " $ sudo visudo "

2. this will open /etc/sudoers file.

3. If your jenkins user is already in that file, then modify to look like this:

jenkins ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

4. save the file

5. Relaunch your jenkins job

6. you shouldnt see that error message again :)