[sudo-users] !requiretty ignored

[Todd C. Miller]

On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 20:14:21 +0200, Han Boetes wrote:

> ~% grep tty .xsession-errors
> sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified
> 
> What am I missing here?

You get that message when sudo needs to prompt for a password and
there is no tty present.  It is not related to requiretty.

Do you get the same error if you give sudo an explicit pathname
to run.  E.g. "sudo /usr/sbin/s2ram"

 - todd