[Chicago-talk] mkdir() question
Randal L. Schwartz
merlyn at stonehenge.com
Thu Dec 2 15:25:01 PST 2010
>>>>> "John" == John Kristoff <jtk at depaul.edu> writes:
John> I think you'll also need to make sure sudo doesn't have 'requiretty'
John> set, which is usually does by default.
Odd, in my version of "man sudoers", I see:
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.
Where have you been where it's been on by default?
And in fact, it wasn't until I hit a system where I couldn't run "sudo
foo" in a script that I even knew that there *was* such a dainbramaged
option. :)
I mean, if you care about ttys, you use a password. But a passwordless
sudo invocation should *not* ever need a tty.
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