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

Maybe the question is unclear that why no answer was matching it but 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.