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

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