[sudo-users] tty_tickets causes script (no tty) failure

[John Wiersba]

I was afraid of that!  Thanks for the clarification,Todd.
 
      From: Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller at courtesan.com>
 To: John Wiersba <jrw32982 at yahoo.com> 
Cc: "sudo-users at sudo.ws" <sudo-users at sudo.ws> 
 Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 5:10 PM
 Subject: Re: [sudo-users] tty_tickets causes script (no tty) failure
   
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 21:00:50 -0000, John Wiersba wrote:

> Unfortunately for me, this is on Oracle Linux Server release 6.6
> (RHEL 6.6) which apparently comes standard with sudo 1.8.6p3. I'm
> not sure I can convince my sysadmins to upgrade sudo on these
> servers. Is there any work-around? I have to run a large variety
> of servers (AIX, Solaris, RHEL, CentOS) with varying versions of
> sudo. On most of them that were built or pre-configured with
> tty-tickets, I have been able to turn off tty-tickets to get around
> this problem, but I'm trying to avoid doing that on this particular
> bunch (I want to leave sudoers alone if at all possible).

I'm afraid you'll have to disable tty_tickets on older versions of
sudo.  Depending on how your sudoers is structured you may be able
to disable tty_tickets only for certain users (or even certain


commands).

 - todd