Bug 828

Summary:	No tty present and no askpass - output possible solution
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	TamusJRoyce <TamusJRoyce>
Component:	Sudo	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	low
Version:	1.8.22
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description TamusJRoyce 2018-03-29 12:10:05 MDT

Putty and ssh output 

  "sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified"

because they are often not configured correctly.

Enchancement: Add an additional line of text, possible solution, when issue occurs.

sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified.
Did you mean "sudo -S"? This will prompt for a password.

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2019-07-19 11:52:00 MDT

I expanded the error message to make it more helpful:
https://www.sudo.ws/repos/sudo/rev/f15ffeffff32

Comment 2 Todd C. Miller 2019-10-14 10:36:13 MDT

Fixed in sudo 1.8.28