sudoers: how to disable requiretty per user

Question

I don't want to uncomment the line in /etc/sudoers:

Defaults    requiretty

Instead, I only want a certain user not to require a tty. How can this be done?

Dennis Williamson · Accepted Answer · 2010-02-09 13:02:49Z

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You said that you want one particular user to not require a tty. That's the default behavior. Nevertheless, you can explicitly set that like this:

Defaults:username !requiretty

If you want everyone else to require a tty, then you'll have to uncommment the line.

answered Feb 9 '10 at 13:02

Dennis Williamson
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Thanks, that worked. – user27451 Feb 10 '10 at 11:39

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Btw., requiretty is active per default on RHEL5. Good to know its not like that in other distributions. – user27451 Feb 13 '10 at 14:11

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