Error when setting credentials on ESX 4 server

[stephaneb]

Hello,

When I try to set user credentials on my ESX servers, I specify an account which has sudo privileges and I tell the Veeam console to elevate to root.
After a while, I get the following error logged in /tmp on the ESX server:

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

I have manually tested the account and I can elevate to root with sudo or su with no problem.

What gives?

Regards,

Stephane B.

[Vitaliy S.]

Hello Stephane,

I've done some research on your error, try to do the following to fix your issue:

The reason for this is the following line added to the /etc/sudoers configuration file.

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Defaults requiretty 

To allow you to login and run a command via sudo simply comment out that line.

Should help! Thank you!

[stephaneb]

I confirm this fixed the issue (sorry for the delayed answer).