Sudo Error " you must have a tty to run sudo"

Question

I am trying to run the following command:

sudo git pull;

I get the following error:

Command failed: sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo

The command is being run from a nodejs server using child_process and exec.

I have looked at other questions and sites that try and solve this error but none of the solutions ie editing /etc/sudoers and using ssh -t work.

I do not have root access and am therefore using sudo in the command.

I am running a basic Amazon EC2 Linux 64bit instance.

Answer 1

Check your sudoers file (or have the administrator verify it). It contains something that looks like this:

Default requiretty

(Default can also just be a group, easier to just search for requiretty)

The quick and easy is to comment this out, and this will resolve that problem. You can also set it with !requiretty for the specific command.

You can also try calling sudo with --session-command to overcome this