Error: sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo (Packer)
Fixes Packer provisioners failing on sudo with 'you must have a tty'. For engineers whose shell provisioner dies on sudo commands, the fix is allocating a pseudo-TTY.
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Fixes Packer provisioners failing on sudo with 'you must have a tty'. For engineers whose shell provisioner dies on sudo commands, the fix is allocating a pseudo-TTY.
The root cause: the first time you run the CLI with sudo, it creates files under [home directory] owned by root, and every later non-sudo run fails with EACCES. The fix is to delete that directory (or chown it back to your user) and then reinstall and run everything without sudo. Never run ntl with sudo again or the r…
Problem outcome: unknown
Installing netlify-cli on macOS kept failing with an EACCES permission denied error on the autocompletion.json file, even on a fresh nvm install. Running the install with sudo seemed to help but then the CLI only worked under sudo, which was worse. A maintainer reproduced the issue and pinpointed the cause in January …
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixed upstream in PR #11431, which is packaged into knife 17.3.48 and newer (and backported into still-supported chef 16.x lines like 16.16.13). Verify the knife gem version on your workstation and upgrade so knife is at 17.3.48 or newer. As a temporary workaround, adding the --require-pty flag to the knife ssh comman…
Problem outcome: unknown
Running knife ssh against multiple hosts with a sudo command (e.g. knife ssh 'chef_environment:blah' 'sudo uptime') failed with an ArgumentError, while the same command without sudo worked fine. The bug was in the ssh session handling when a pseudo-terminal was needed for sudo across multiple sessions. The failure onl…
Problem outcome: unknown